Reposted by Carole Lyons
The European Court of Human Rights has dealt with over 430,000 applications in the last 10 years.
Less than 2% of those related to immigration.
And more than 90% of THOSE were dismissed by the Court.
Check out our new factsheet on migration and the ECHR👇
🔗 go.coe.int/MJ3B2
Less than 2% of those related to immigration.
And more than 90% of THOSE were dismissed by the Court.
Check out our new factsheet on migration and the ECHR👇
🔗 go.coe.int/MJ3B2
February 13, 2026 at 9:08 AM
The European Court of Human Rights has dealt with over 430,000 applications in the last 10 years.
Less than 2% of those related to immigration.
And more than 90% of THOSE were dismissed by the Court.
Check out our new factsheet on migration and the ECHR👇
🔗 go.coe.int/MJ3B2
Less than 2% of those related to immigration.
And more than 90% of THOSE were dismissed by the Court.
Check out our new factsheet on migration and the ECHR👇
🔗 go.coe.int/MJ3B2
Reposted by Carole Lyons
🇭🇺⚖️🇪🇺 Some words of mine - in absolutely stellar company of i.a. @profpech.bsky.social @profkochenov.bsky.social on yesterday's AG Kokott's opinion in the Commission vs Hungary case regarding the Hungarian Sovereignty Protection Office.
www.courthousenews.com/hungarys-for...
www.courthousenews.com/hungarys-for...
Hungary’s foreign interference law draws EU adviser flag on chilling speech
The central European nation's attempt to police media and NGOs could backfire, after a legal expert told the bloc's top court a new office risks overreach and breaching core freedoms.
www.courthousenews.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 AM
🇭🇺⚖️🇪🇺 Some words of mine - in absolutely stellar company of i.a. @profpech.bsky.social @profkochenov.bsky.social on yesterday's AG Kokott's opinion in the Commission vs Hungary case regarding the Hungarian Sovereignty Protection Office.
www.courthousenews.com/hungarys-for...
www.courthousenews.com/hungarys-for...
Hungarian measures put in place to protect national sovereignty against foreign political interference found to infringe EU Law, in an AG Opinion in Case C-829/24 Commission v Hungary
#ECJ #AG Kokott: By adopting the law on the protection of national sovereignty, #Hungary has infringed #EUlaw 🇭🇺👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
curia.europa.eu
February 12, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Hungarian measures put in place to protect national sovereignty against foreign political interference found to infringe EU Law, in an AG Opinion in Case C-829/24 Commission v Hungary
Reposted by Carole Lyons
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has waived the immunity of former Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland following a request from the Norwegian authorities to pursue proceedings relating to allegations of aggravated corruption.
www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers waives immunity of former Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland - Portal - www.coe.int
Committee of Ministers Strasbourg 11 February 2026
www.coe.int
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has waived the immunity of former Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland following a request from the Norwegian authorities to pursue proceedings relating to allegations of aggravated corruption.
www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
Reposted by Carole Lyons
It’s cold. It’s rainy. It’s February at its greyest and grimmest. So I thought that #RecipeOfTheDay just needed to be this Sticky Chocolate Pudding! www.nigella.com/recipes/stic...
Sticky Chocolate Pudding
This is a variant on lemon surprise pudding, in which the mixture divides on cooking to produce a sponge above the thick lemony sauce which forms below. Indeed, it is known in my house as Lemon Surpri...
www.nigella.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
It’s cold. It’s rainy. It’s February at its greyest and grimmest. So I thought that #RecipeOfTheDay just needed to be this Sticky Chocolate Pudding! www.nigella.com/recipes/stic...
Reposted by Carole Lyons
An interesting lecture from Lord Sales which includes, among other topics, discussion of the Influence of public law ideas and values on private law development and the relationship between the common law and ECHR
supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee...
1/5
supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee...
1/5
supremecourt.uk
February 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
An interesting lecture from Lord Sales which includes, among other topics, discussion of the Influence of public law ideas and values on private law development and the relationship between the common law and ECHR
supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee...
1/5
supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee...
1/5
Reposted by Carole Lyons
‘Can cork man stay afloat?’ was right there.
Cork man Morgan McSweeney is embroiled in a scandal over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the US
Who is Irish Starmer aide at centre of Mandelson scandal?
www.rte.ie
February 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
‘Can cork man stay afloat?’ was right there.
Reposted by Carole Lyons
The new draft Regulation on the return of migrants introduces return hubs, reduces protections, and aims to speed up and simplify the return process.
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
February 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
The new draft Regulation on the return of migrants introduces return hubs, reduces protections, and aims to speed up and simplify the return process.
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
Catalan independence: CJEU (overturning General Court decision) finds in favour of three former MEPs (including Puigdemont) whose parliamentary immunity from prosecution had been removed by the European Parliament (EP), due to lack of impartiality in the EP process
#ECJ annuls the @Europarl_EN ‘s decisions to lift the immunity of Carles Puigdemont, Antoni Comín and Clara Ponsatí 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
curia.europa.eu
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Catalan independence: CJEU (overturning General Court decision) finds in favour of three former MEPs (including Puigdemont) whose parliamentary immunity from prosecution had been removed by the European Parliament (EP), due to lack of impartiality in the EP process
Reposted by Carole Lyons
⚖️🇷🇺 A vanishing point - ECtHR found this week that Russia had violated the right to life, personal liberty and security, as well as the prohibition of inhumane or degrading treatment, regarding Aleksey Nalavnyy after ultimately fatal detention in 2021. 1/
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
⚖️🇷🇺 A vanishing point - ECtHR found this week that Russia had violated the right to life, personal liberty and security, as well as the prohibition of inhumane or degrading treatment, regarding Aleksey Nalavnyy after ultimately fatal detention in 2021. 1/
Reposted by Carole Lyons
New report out today on the impact of the Supreme Court's s.28(7) jurisprudence, with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social and Jo Hunt.
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
New report examines what UK Supreme Court decisions mean for devolved law-making
5 February 2026: A new report says an unexpected interpretation of section 28(7) of the Scotland Act by the UK Supreme Court has generated uncertainty around limits of law-making in the Scottish Parli...
www.gla.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:46 AM
New report out today on the impact of the Supreme Court's s.28(7) jurisprudence, with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social and Jo Hunt.
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
Reposted by Carole Lyons
🇬🇱 "So, although the legal process for Greenland to rejoin the EU would be relatively straightforward, the policy questions at stake mean that the re-entry would not be guaranteed."
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social & Denzil Davidson on whether Greenland could join the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/can-greenlan...
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social & Denzil Davidson on whether Greenland could join the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/can-greenlan...
Can Greenland join the EU? - UK in a changing Europe
Catherine Barnard and Denzil Davidson look at the legal process Greenland would have to follow if it were to decide to try and rejoin the EU, as well as the potential political obstacles.
ukandeu.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 12:13 PM
🇬🇱 "So, although the legal process for Greenland to rejoin the EU would be relatively straightforward, the policy questions at stake mean that the re-entry would not be guaranteed."
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social & Denzil Davidson on whether Greenland could join the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/can-greenlan...
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social & Denzil Davidson on whether Greenland could join the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/can-greenlan...
Reposted by Carole Lyons
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down"
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
January 31, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down"
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
- Toni Morrison.
Flying Machine, 2010 by artist Laurie Lipton #womensart
Reposted by Carole Lyons
Worth noting as this may be the 1st time the activation of Art 7(1) in respect of Hungary has led a court in another EUMS to find the asylum application of a 🇭🇺 citizen admissible on account of Protocol no 24, point (b) before granting the application
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender
Analysis by Chiara Scissa:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
Analysis by Chiara Scissa:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
Mutual trust does not supersede human rights! Italian judges unprecedently recognize the refugee status to an EU citizen
Dr. Chiara Scissa * Photo credit : Bologna Tribunal, photo by Alex Sirac via Wikimedia Commons * Research fellow in EU law at the Uni...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Worth noting as this may be the 1st time the activation of Art 7(1) in respect of Hungary has led a court in another EUMS to find the asylum application of a 🇭🇺 citizen admissible on account of Protocol no 24, point (b) before granting the application
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
@tinekestrik.bsky.social @petrabard.bsky.social
Reposted by Carole Lyons
Today, the Court also released an overview of its case‑law.
It presents the most significant cases of 2025, especially those that broke new legal ground or addressed emerging issues.
It presents the most significant cases of 2025, especially those that broke new legal ground or addressed emerging issues.
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Today, the Court also released an overview of its case‑law.
It presents the most significant cases of 2025, especially those that broke new legal ground or addressed emerging issues.
It presents the most significant cases of 2025, especially those that broke new legal ground or addressed emerging issues.
Reposted by Carole Lyons
📣 Just published!
📘 Today, the European Court of Human Rights has published its 2025 Annual Report, together with an overview of its case-law.
🔗 Both publications are available for download on the Court’s website:
www.echr.coe.int/w/the-court-...
📘 Today, the European Court of Human Rights has published its 2025 Annual Report, together with an overview of its case-law.
🔗 Both publications are available for download on the Court’s website:
www.echr.coe.int/w/the-court-...
January 29, 2026 at 12:40 PM
📣 Just published!
📘 Today, the European Court of Human Rights has published its 2025 Annual Report, together with an overview of its case-law.
🔗 Both publications are available for download on the Court’s website:
www.echr.coe.int/w/the-court-...
📘 Today, the European Court of Human Rights has published its 2025 Annual Report, together with an overview of its case-law.
🔗 Both publications are available for download on the Court’s website:
www.echr.coe.int/w/the-court-...
Reposted by Carole Lyons
Of 430,000 applications decided by the European Court of Human Rights since 2016, about 2% have concerned migration, says ECHR president Mattias Guyomar👇
🔗 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... via @irishtimes.com
The Court's annual report and statistics for 2025 are now online 👉 go.coe.int/BxL4M
🔗 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... via @irishtimes.com
The Court's annual report and statistics for 2025 are now online 👉 go.coe.int/BxL4M
Human rights court not ‘an obstacle’ to states implementing immigration policies
A political priority ‘cannot become a judge’s priority’ says ECtHR president
www.irishtimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Of 430,000 applications decided by the European Court of Human Rights since 2016, about 2% have concerned migration, says ECHR president Mattias Guyomar👇
🔗 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... via @irishtimes.com
The Court's annual report and statistics for 2025 are now online 👉 go.coe.int/BxL4M
🔗 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... via @irishtimes.com
The Court's annual report and statistics for 2025 are now online 👉 go.coe.int/BxL4M
Reposted by Carole Lyons
Academic Freedom is under pressure.
Our latest Verfassungsbook, edited by V. KOSTA and M. MÜLLER-ELMAU (@mlme.bsky.social), puts Article 13 of the EU Charter in the spotlight and assesses its potential in light of past and present threats to academic freedom.
➡️ verfassungsblog.de/book/mapping...
Our latest Verfassungsbook, edited by V. KOSTA and M. MÜLLER-ELMAU (@mlme.bsky.social), puts Article 13 of the EU Charter in the spotlight and assesses its potential in light of past and present threats to academic freedom.
➡️ verfassungsblog.de/book/mapping...
January 29, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Academic Freedom is under pressure.
Our latest Verfassungsbook, edited by V. KOSTA and M. MÜLLER-ELMAU (@mlme.bsky.social), puts Article 13 of the EU Charter in the spotlight and assesses its potential in light of past and present threats to academic freedom.
➡️ verfassungsblog.de/book/mapping...
Our latest Verfassungsbook, edited by V. KOSTA and M. MÜLLER-ELMAU (@mlme.bsky.social), puts Article 13 of the EU Charter in the spotlight and assesses its potential in light of past and present threats to academic freedom.
➡️ verfassungsblog.de/book/mapping...
Reposted by Carole Lyons
Flowers lie on a snow-covered concrete stele of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2026. 📸 Annegret Hilse
January 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Flowers lie on a snow-covered concrete stele of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2026. 📸 Annegret Hilse
Reposted by Carole Lyons
A (rare) example of infringement action by the Commission addressing one facet of Orban regime's systemic disloyalty and leading to a CJEU ruling holding Hungary in breach of the principle of sincere cooperation in the area of the EU's exclusive external competence
⚖️ Judgment in Case C-271/23 Commission v Hungary:
Can a Member State vote against an EU common position at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the ground that it considers that position unlawful?
🎥 💬 President Lenaerts explains with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/12...
Can a Member State vote against an EU common position at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the ground that it considers that position unlawful?
🎥 💬 President Lenaerts explains with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/12...
January 27, 2026 at 9:05 AM
A (rare) example of infringement action by the Commission addressing one facet of Orban regime's systemic disloyalty and leading to a CJEU ruling holding Hungary in breach of the principle of sincere cooperation in the area of the EU's exclusive external competence
Third time lucky? 🤞
CJEU - text of the request for the court to rule on whether the latest attempt at EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
January 26, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Third time lucky? 🤞
Reposted by Carole Lyons
Here’s the beginning of our film about Raeburn’s rediscovered portrait of Robert Burns. Watch the whole film at blackiehouse.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Here’s the beginning of our film about Raeburn’s rediscovered portrait of Robert Burns. Watch the whole film at blackiehouse.org
For the day that's in it 🏴 - and for Alex Pretti -
"Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudN...
"Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudN...
A Man's A Man For A' That (Opening of Scottish Parliament) - Sheena Wellington
YouTube video by Bruce Davies
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:07 PM
For the day that's in it 🏴 - and for Alex Pretti -
"Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudN...
"Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudN...