European Justice Ministers agreed at their informal meeting on Friday 29 January on the need to better protect vulnerable adults in the EU—one of the main priorities of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
“All Ministers of Justice were very receptive to the idea that we should move forward to protect vulnerable adults as a matter of urgency, mainly by ratifying the Hague Convention of 2000 on the protection of adults and if possible make even further progress by doing...