The Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, speaking on Tuesday at the publication of her 2019 report, evoked the image of “a Europe circling a roundabout, uncertain about its direction and the human rights obligations”.
A wandering accentuated, she stresses, by the pandemic which “is exacerbating long-standing problems and emphasising the weaknesses of Europe’s human rights protection system”.
Five of the themes addressed in this report illustrate this backlash inflicted...