The European Union’s decision to conclude the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women would be compatible with the treaties even if it were adopted in the absence of a common agreement of all Member States, Advocate General Gerard Hogan of the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in a Opinion delivered on Thursday 11 March (Opinion request 1/19).
The Court is asked to respond to a July 2019 request for an opinion from the European Parliament, which in late 2019,...