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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10033
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) council of europe

Conundrum of Minarets in Switzerland

Brussels, 03/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - The president of the European Court of Human Rights, Jean-Paul Costa, said on Tuesday 1 December that it would not be easy to appeal to the Court of Human Rights against the Swiss referendum result banning the building of minarets in Switzerland. He said that the minaret referendum was a new conundrum for the Court of Human Rights, which has never had to rule against a referendum. Anyone wishing to take a case to the court in question would first have...

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