In response to the open letter published on 22 May by nine Member States - both of the Council of Europe and of the EU - criticising the European Court of Human Rights for case law that curbs their prerogatives in the area of migration policy (see EUROPE B13648A20), the Swiss Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Strasbourg-based organisation, organised, on Wednesday 10 December, an Informal Ministerial Conference to bring the debate back within the walls of the organisation and recentre...