Strasbourg, 13/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 12 January, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, said that the ball was now in the EU's court, following the verdict of the Court of Justice concluding that the draft agreement on the accession of the EU as a whole to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was incompatible with the provisions of the Treaty on the Union (see EUROPE 11221).
“The EU must now reflect upon and discuss how it must...