Council of Europe countries adopt Chisinau declaration on ECHR and migration
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🎙️ A new podcast series by the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the Council of Europe.
🟢 The European Court of Human Rights: An Irish Perspective
🎧 Listen to the first episode: www.ireland.ie/en/coe/europ...
Wonderful to see this comment on the Italy-Albania Protocol, together with Eleonora Frasca out with @verfassungsblog.de.
Steve Peers
EU law legal history - New interesting and recent book spotted today in a bookshop which explores the intense struggle over the emergence of a constitutional practice
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The proposed EU Return Regulation would massively expand detention – and de facto criminalise migrants seeking asylum.
RHEA KUMMER (@rheakummer.bsky.social) exposes where the draft violates the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
verfassungsblog.de/eu-return-re...
European Court of Human Rights
My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision:
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Read my full speech at the @coe.int Foreign Affairs Meeting in Chișinău👇
#CMCoEChisinau2026 #CM135Chisinau #HumanRights #ECHR #StandWithUkraine #Accountability 3/3
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My Bluesky has been very quiet, which I’m going to try to rectify…
Part of the reason is that I have been finishing my next book The Governance of Migration in the EU. It will be out with OUP later in the year, with some Portuguese art on the cover.
It’s #EuropeDay! 🇪🇺✨
📜 On 9 May 1950, the Schuman Declaration laid the foundations for today’s European Union.
76 years on, the #CJEU ensures that #EUlaw is interpreted and applied uniformly across all Member States. 🤝
#SchumanDeclaration #Justice #RuleOfLaw
Jonas Bornemann
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw
The Good and Faithful Servants One of the foundational assertions of judicial approaches to legislation in the UK comes from Willes J in Lee v Bude and Torrington Railway Co: We sit here as servant…
Litigating Externalisation under the Italy-Albania Protocol:
JONAS BORNEMANN and ELEONORA FRASCA on AG Emiliou’s Opinion in the Sedrata case — and how the CJEU may be lowering the legal threshold for offshore migration processing under EU law.
verfassungsblog.de/litigating-e...
CJEU/Preliminary reference matters - Recent and insightful analysis of interest -'Fairness or Uniformity: The Real Basis of the Duty to Give Reasons in Remling'.
www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/apoysqlf...
Colin Murray
Commissioner for Human Rights
The Court of Justice of the European Union is the judicial body of the EU. Its role is to ensure that EU laws are respected by the EU’s institutions and Member States and applied in the same way…
This post argues that the ECJ's duty to give specific reasons when declining a preliminary reference, confirmed in Remling (C-767/23), is grounded in Article 47 CFREU's right to a fair trial - not, as...
