While her rhetoric was encouraging, it’s hard to see Braverman’s hard talk on immigration as much more than a leadership challenge to a beleaguered Sunak.
The delay in deporting migrants to Rwanda is frustrating the UK government and the Conservatives, which is leading to the possibility that the UK will ditch the ECHR.
Religious freedom was repeatedly violated during COVID. Yet it is essential for everyone—not only for people of faith. It enables all people to live according to their conscience, regardless of their religious convictions.
Suppressing remarks or attitudes that could harm a “peaceful social climate” may be great for genteel Council of Europe meetings, university seminars, or dinner parties, even if it might make them a trifle dull. But it won’t work for any kind of effective 21st century politics.
The European Court of Human Rights has refrained from engaging in the ideological game orchestrated by feminist advocates campaigning for unlimited abortion.
“This trend of [the ECHR] exceeding its jurisdiction represents a severe threat to democracy,” Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș told The European Conservative.
The founders of the Council of Europe saw the need for an international organisation dedicated to protecting human rights. But there were other options back then, and there surely are now.
After rescuing the four Tunisian migrants at sea in 2017, Italian authorities were found to have breached their human rights by failing to assess their asylum applications properly.
