In the past months the academic community has tried to understand what the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) could have done wrong regarding the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or ‘the Convention’) in the field of migration. The question was, what could have induced its Contracting States to claim that…

While “[t]oday, Europe faces the perfect storm” that, in the words of the Secretary General, “threatens to undo the peace, stability and hard-won progress the Council of Europe has helped deliver across an entire continent over the past 75 years”, it appears that European States not only forgot that they adopted in 1950 the European Convention on…

On 22 October 2024 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) issued a landmark judgment in the case of Kobaliya and Others v. Russia. It found that the Russian legislation on ‘foreign agents’ – imposing huge restrictions on the rights of Russian non-governmental organisations, media organisations and individuals designated as ‘foreign agents’ – breached…