Led by Italy and Denmark, a group of nine European countries stormed the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Their governments criticize this body in particular its decisions in migration matters.
Their rhetoric is simple: the judges of Strasbourg, by defending the fundamental principles too extensive, question the sovereignty of governments based on popular legitimacy and threaten the security of their citizens, deemed inseparable from the control of migration. Of various political sensitivities, the Italian, Danish, Austrian, Belgian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Czech governments signed an open letter in this direction. They denounce a “Evolution of the interpretation of the Court”who would have ” limit [leur] ability to make political decisions in our own democracies ”.
Published on the day of a meeting, in Rome, between the far-right president of the Italian council, Giorgia Meloni, and her Danish social democratic counterpart, puts Frederiksen, the text is part of a substantive movement in Europe: the transformation of the migration file into a battlefield between a sovereignism, now expressed in a transversal way on the political spectrum, and the national and international judicial institutions. The discourse is of a political nature, the expression still vague, any concrete proposal for reform still absent.
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Source: Lemonde