It is summer and Walter and Johan take some distance from current affairs to look at an institution that runs like a thread throughout this podcast series: the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. With a world in flux, that Court is also in flux. How does it fare in these troubled times when the rule of law is no longer unequivocally the supreme good? Political, cultural or religious forces mix. And this is happening more and more. And not just in Turkey or Poland...
Walter and Johan explain how the Court came into being, what exactly it does, what evolutions it has gone through and what the pain points are today. Because that the system is creaking is obvious.
- Mr Johan Vande Lanotte and Mr Walter Van Steenbrugge
