United Kingdom Signals Its Priorities For CoE Leadership

Court reform, efficiency savings and cost reductions will be at the heart of the United Kingdom’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe, a British peer has revealed.


On 18 November, during a House Of Lords debate on the Council of Europe, Lord Howell of Guildford, speaking on behalf of the government, said: “We are looking to push down the costs of the Council of Europe, to make efficiency savings where possible and to ensure that work undertaken by the organisation is essential and relevant.

Thorbjørn Jagland Warns Europe Against ECHR Defiance On Iraqi Returns

Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has warned Council of Europe member states preparing to return Iraqi citizens to Iraq not to violate a European Court of Human Rights decision.

London Underground Police Shooting Before European Court of Human Rights

A case concerning the fatal shooting of Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes by the police in the London Underground is pending before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Mr de Menezes, who was mistakenly identified as a terrorist suspect, was shot dead on 22 July 2005, aged 27, by two special firearms officers of the Metropolitan Police Service at Stockwell underground station.