At a press conference on Friday 31 January, Marko Bošnjak, President of the European Court of Human Rights, expressed his delight at the continuing decline in the number of cases pending before the Court, noting that 2024 was a “very busy” year.
The measures put in place over several years to keep them out have been effective, and their numbers have fallen from 161,000 in 2011 to 60,350 last December, which is 12% down on December 2023, when there were 68,450.
Three quarters of these...