Month: February 2026
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The Court’s Annual Report and Opening of the Judicial Year
At the end of January, The European Court of Human Rights organised its opening of the judicial year and published its annual report. At the formal opening, the President of the Court, Mattias Guyomar, in his speech called for judicial unity and solidarity in the face
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New Book on the ECtHR and Authoritarian Populism
Alain Zysset (University of Glasgow) has just published a new book, entitled ‘Responding to Authoritarian Populism at the European Court of Human Rights: A Calibrated Framework‘. The book focuses on authoritarian populism as a threat to democracy and the rule of law and the way
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‘We Make It, You Take It’: Fake Dialogue and Genuine Pressure between the States and the European Court of Human Rights
By Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool The Dialogue The Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) has just published a Preliminary Draft Text for the Outcome Document Containing Elements for a Political Declaration. Most of this document is dedicated to the issues of migration, something that
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Article 3 ECHR and Chișinău: What Are the Stakes?
By Natasa Mavronicola, University of Birmingham Article 3 ECHR is under pressure. At a recent informal ministerial conference in Strasbourg on human rights day, 10 December 2025, Ministers from 27 Member States of the Council of Europe prepared a joint statement that is likely to
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Our Public Resource on the Convention’s Future
As ECHR Blog editorial team, we have created a dedicated page, entitled ‘Future of the Convention‘, on which we keep track of the debates about the future of the Court and the Convention which started with the open letter of nine heads of government, focusing