CE: Bulgaria Ignores Strasbourg Court Rules
Bulgaria in EU | July 20, 2011, Wednesday // 09:59| views
he building of the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg. Photo by BGNES
Some European countries, including Bulgaria, fail to follow up on or ignore the rules of the European Human Rights Court, according to a study of the Council of Europe.
The study's results were presented by Thomas Hammarberg, CE Commissioner for Human Rights, cited by Deutsche Welle and the Bulgarian daily Dnevnik.
Hammarberg has listed 9 countries, which systematically fail to adhere to the rules of the Strasbourg-based Court – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Poland, Moldova, Romania, the Ukraine, Turkey and Russia. The most common violation is not the failure to pay compensations, but the carrying out of reforms that must be implemented as consequences of the Court's rules.
According to CE data, currently about 9 000 rules of the Court must be executed, which is twice more compared to 2004.
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