“The measure of the European Court of Human Rights’s success should no longer be the total number of cases dealt with in a given period, but also the nature of the cases considered and the way in which the most important cases are dealt with”, said the Court’s President, Robert Spano, at a press conference on Tuesday 25 January, devoted to the Annual Report of the Strasbourg-based Court for the year 2021.
According to Mr Spano, it is a matter of defending “a new strategy” based...