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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10539

26 January 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 30 / 31
COUNCIL OF EUROPE / (ae) echr
Authority and effectiveness of Court of Human Rights under threat

Brussels, 25/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Human Rights may be seen by many as a constant. It is, however, under threat. It is caught between the exponential increase in cases referred to it by the citizens of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) - some 160,000 cases are currently pending - and its annual budget of €59.96 million, pitifully low when compared with that, for example, of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In...

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