Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The ECHR has a New President

Jean Paul Costa is the new President of the European Court of Human Rights. His mandate has just begun. He replaces the former Swiss President, Luzius Wildhaber. Here's Costa's interesting speech.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just a quick note : Luzius Wildhaber actually comes from Switzerland, not Austria!

Undisclosed said...

I need the English link.

Unknown said...

Una, the speech is half in french half in english. It is the way the court works, perhaps wrongly.

Unknown said...

And yes, apologies, Wildhaber is Swiss. I'll correct this

Undisclosed said...

It's about 80% in French, and 20% in Elnglish. Grrrrr.