Brief News
-
Apple v. Samsung : Bad old Apple v. Good baby Fish ?
Date: Saturday, 01 September 2012Hits: 25926 -
Spain: Jailed Turkish Terror suspect with Explosive,Drones,Chechen accomplices stirs Merah+ Burgas ?
Date: Friday, 03 August 2012Hits: 44490 -
CoE Human Rights Commissioner Muizinieks: Protect Journalists from Attacks to Muzzle on Issues !
Date: Tuesday, 05 June 2012Hits: 18273 -
Dégradation de la Turquie par S&P: la bulle financière de croissance artificielle risque à crever ?!
Date: Thursday, 03 May 2012Hits: 17535 -
European protection of Human Rights threatened by Turkey-inspired restrictions ?!
Date: Thursday, 12 April 2012Hits: 16589 -
EU Parliament Chair Schulz hails Morocco Model for Arab/Mediterranean area eve of EU-Turkey Report
Date: Sunday, 25 March 2012Hits: 19132 -
Merkel warns Hollande on Turkey if Socialists harm €uro : Pacta sunt servanda(Her reply to EuroFora)
Date: Monday, 06 February 2012Hits: 16062 -
CoE asks Turkey Free Movement + International Access +Protection for Syrian Refugees closed in Camps
Date: Tuesday, 24 January 2012Hits: 14950 -
Reelected EPP President Daul to EuroFora: Yes up to 2014 + Financial Perspectives 2013-2020 !
Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2011Hits: 16894 -
Head of BioEthics InterGroup, MEP Peter Liese : "Embryonic stem cell research reaching its END" !?
Date: Thursday, 17 November 2011Hits: 46495 -
IMF's Director Lagarde : The political situation in Greece must be clarified soon !
Date: Friday, 04 November 2011Hits: 17140 -
ECHR condemns Turkey for persisting Impunity (2010) of Torturers even of Journalists+
Date: Tuesday, 11 October 2011Hits: 15287 -
US Pentagon, White House, NY+ Quake scare due to underground Gas search similar to 1999 Turkey EQ ?!
Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2011Hits: 22500 -
EU Parliament simplifies Citizens Access on Europe Day, but Debates potential remains to be explored
Date: Sunday, 08 May 2011Hits: 16570 -
EPP vice-President Bonsignore to EuroFora: +EU, not only USA Ships between Sicelia-Libya !
Date: Wednesday, 09 March 2011Hits: 19136 -
EU Parliament backs partial Political Blocking of Turkey - EU Negotiations
Date: Wednesday, 09 March 2011Hits: 16525 -
Strasbourg Prefect to EuroFora on Superior Rhine local entity at EU Franco-German Heart: A Signal ?
Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2011Hits: 19508 -
EuroFora TGV to Paris blocked for +3 Hours, Communications cut, Man killed, Press tool destroyed !
Date: Wednesday, 05 January 2011Hits: 16566 -
Giscard + ECB's President + MEPs : €uro Currency is strong and will grow with EU Economic Governance
Date: Thursday, 25 November 2010Hits: 16981 -
€uro never faced a 2009 Crisis says Greek Top Politician f.MEP Samaras : Calls to check 1981-2001
Date: Tuesday, 21 September 2010Hits: 16880 -
"Rainbow" Center-Right/Moral Values/Independents + Greens' start in Australian Election ?
Date: Saturday, 21 August 2010Hits: 21338 -
The European Athletic "Dream Team", after Barcelona 2010 Sport Championship Results
Date: Monday, 02 August 2010Hits: 76616 -
AF447 mysterious Brazil Crash Victims Families to speak out on 1st Anniversary without Findings
Date: Saturday, 29 May 2010Hits: 24102 -
ESA to consult users on Earth Observation needs and applications
Date: Monday, 15 February 2010Hits: 15188 -
Sarkozy Spokesman to EuroFora: EU Parliament able to host big Political Debates on Europe's Future+
Date: Thursday, 04 February 2010Hits: 16159 -
EU Parliament's Spokesman, Duch, to EuroFora on moves to use Climate as a lever for Development
Date: Sunday, 17 January 2010Hits: 14793 -
Alsace Region's President Reichardt : Air Company HQ at Strasbourg's Euro-Airport ?
Date: Friday, 08 January 2010Hits: 18582 -
Berlin backs Oettinger to EU Commission after attacks: Head of 11 Million inh. State +good Economist
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2009Hits: 14753 -
CoE support for On-line Media's Press Freedom
Date: Monday, 26 October 2009Hits: 14349 -
Turkey-week during EU Parliament's October session in Strasbourg...
Date: Thursday, 22 October 2009Hits: 14906 -
ECHR, Journalist Unions SNJ+EFJ's Aidan White to EuroFora: Web Media with Deontology serve Democracy
Date: Friday, 16 October 2009Hits: 17957 -
Brok: Rehn's Turkey Report last-minute changes insufficient for EU Commission credibility on Cyprus
Date: Thursday, 15 October 2009Hits: 14714 -
CoE Report, MEPs and INGOs denounce : No Double Standards on ECHR Judgements' respect !
Date: Thursday, 10 September 2009Hits: 14188 -
Photopanels
Date: Wednesday, 09 September 2009Hits: 11251 -
US-EU Basket: Tony Parker on Noah: Chicago Bulls didn't see Strasbourg's global value. Obama did !
Date: Friday, 24 July 2009Hits: 14628 -
Unanswered MEPs questions to Bildt on Turkey's obligations stir anti-accession mood
Date: Wednesday, 22 July 2009Hits: 13844 -
Barroso vote : SP Head Schulz feels it might be September, but finds preferable October..
Date: Tuesday, 14 July 2009Hits: 11863 -
Pöttering, the EU Parliament President of Human Dignity, concludes with call for Unity of EU People
Date: Monday, 13 July 2009Hits: 13175 -
CoE's 2009 Summer University : "Global Crisis : a lack of Democracy" ?
Date: Tuesday, 07 July 2009Hits: 11979 -
CoE Ministers Committee under crossfire by Assembly and INGOs on SG Election Rules, ECHR judgements+
Date: Saturday, 27 June 2009Hits: 13000 -
Barroso postponed ?! EU Parliament's vote on July in Strasbourg uncertain.
Date: Friday, 26 June 2009Hits: 11698 -
Citizen-friendly post-Electoral evening at EU Parliament in Strasbourg opens new era ?
Date: Monday, 08 June 2009Hits: 11994 -
Main points on EU 2009 Elections' RESULTS and current perspectives
Date: Monday, 08 June 2009Hits: 12036 -
French CFSP Expert, Gov. Majority cand.MEP Danjean:-"Turkey in the EU, would mean EU in Iraq War !"
Date: Saturday, 30 May 2009Hits: 15757 -
CoE near Crisis : New Secretary General's Election in limbo !
Date: Saturday, 30 May 2009Hits: 12200 -
EU+CoE ask Turkey to drop Political Parties closure rules, arbitrary+ incompatible with EU standards
Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2009Hits: 12742 -
Citizen-friendly EuroDistrict Declaration by Franco-German Mayors at Rhine's EU Day has European aim
Date: Monday, 18 May 2009Hits: 12341 -
Strasbourg's Region, Alsace : EU pioneer in Natural Environment ?
Date: Thursday, 14 May 2009Hits: 12093 -
EU Family InterGroup Chair Dr Cassiotou to EuroFora: Help Families is key in EU fight against Crisis
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2009Hits: 13296 -
EU Debate opens Question on Quake risk by Nuclear Plant on Seismic Seaside Faultline (ie. in Turkey)
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2009Hits: 12825
Main Menu
Home Press Deontology/Ethics 2009 Innovation Year EU endorses EuroFora's idea Multi-Lingual FORUM Subscribers/Donors FAQs Advanced search EuroFora supports Seabird newsitems In Brief European Headquarters' MAPs CoE Journalists Protection PlatformBRIEF NEWS
- 00:00 - 02.06.2021
- 00:00 - 18.10.2020
- 00:00 - 19.06.2020
- 00:00 - 18.05.2020
- 00:00 - 20.04.2020
- 00:00 - 02.02.2020
- 00:00 - 09.12.2019
- 00:00 - 27.11.2019
- 00:00 - 16.11.2019
Popular
- Yes, we could have prevented Ferguson riots says World Democracy Forum's Young American NGO to ERFRA
- Spanish People Elect CenterRIGHT Majority with 1st Party and Total of 178 MPs (6 More than the Left)
- Pflimlin's vision
- The European Athletic "Dream Team", after Barcelona 2010 Sport Championship Results
- Source Conseil d'Europe à ERFRA: Debatre Liberté d'Opposants à Loi livrant Mariage+Enfants à Homos ?
- Head of BioEthics InterGroup, MEP Peter Liese : "Embryonic stem cell research reaching its END" !?
- Spain: Jailed Turkish Terror suspect with Explosive,Drones,Chechen accomplices stirs Merah+ Burgas ?
- UN Head Ban Ki Moon at CoE World Democracy Forum : - "Listen to the People !"
Latest News
- EUOmbudsmen Conference 2022: Digital Gaps affect People's Trust threaten EF Project on EU Future ?
- French Election : Black Out on Virus, but Obligation for Fake 'Vaccines" Challenged
- Both French Presidential Candidates point at "Humanism" in crucial times...
- France : Zemmour = Outsider may become Game Changer in Presidential + Parliamentary Elections 2022
- PACE President Cox skips Turkey Worst (Occupation) case compared to Russia (DeMilitarisation) query
Statistics
Visitors: 56834615Archive
Login Form
Other Menu
Ten Years of ECHR : 1998 - 2008 show need of Revival in 2009-2010 coinciding with 2009 EU Election
A threefold, coordinated move by new Top French Political actors in the 2009 EU Parliament Elections, expressed in Strasbourg a will to boost Europe's Political dimension close to Citizens' concerns, going from protection of Economy to defence of Human Rights.
The move met an exceptional ECHR's call for a "revival" of Human Rights' protection mechanism', in a Mega-Conference, early 2010.
Obviously focusing on June 2009 Elections to EU Parliament, it involved from the outset the recently nominated "dual" Head of French Governing Party (UMP) Michel BARNIER and Rachida DATI :
- "As President Sarkozy has clearly said, we (France) are in favor of a Strong, Sovereign and Independent, Political Europe, which protects its Citizens, and not for a large Super-Market, nor for a Europe under influence",
"This goes for everything, including Energy", added to "EuroFora" the experienced former EU Commissioner, Minister of Foreign affairs, currently of Agriculture and Sarkozy's new pick as Leader of the Governing party UMP to EU 2009 Election, Michel BARNIER .
- Human Rights are important because they are at the Heart of the Political Europe that we aspire for : I.e. a Europe able to act and protect its Citizens, stressed also the New French Minister for European affairs, Bruno LE MAIRE, while meeting Strasbourg's Journalists at his first visit to the CoE.
This is one of the main interests for CoE, which is also a natural place for cooperation between EU countries and Russia or Turkey, which was recently helpful at the Middle East crisis, he added.
The move gained momentum with French Minister of Justice, Rachida Dati's main observations at ECHR's 5Oth Anniversary :
- "While we are seeking Europe's Borders and Identity, you (ECHR) remind us also of its Values", Human Rights, Dati noted.
Citizens seek more and more often ECHR's help, and the tempo accelerates, Europa awaits a symbol, while national legal orders are not freezed
And she expressed "support" to ECHR President Jean-Paul Costa's call to satisfy the vital need to revigorate the PanEuropean Court by deciding big changes at a High-Level Conference open to a large audience, a kind of "Etats Generaux" of Human Rights, at the beginning of 2010.
It's not so much the recently growing number of applications for Russia or Ukraine etc, which seems to be Costa's main concern : In fact, the cases declared "admissible" are much fewer...
But rather the persistent violations of Human Rights, sometimes very grave (ie. murders, torture, abritrary deprivation of liberty, oppression of freedom of speech, destructions of homes/properties, etc), despite numerous, repeated condemnations by ECHR. So that CoE's Ministers, due to "supervise execution" of ECHR's judgements, are overloaded.
F.ex. most Media noted that Turkey still remains, even in 2008, the 1st among 47 CoE member States in the number of condemnations by ECHR : 257, compared to 233 for Russia, with a population more than the double..
The problem is that it's not the 1st time at all : During all the last Decade 1998-2008, Turkey was condemned by ECHR much more than any other State, and for particularly grave violations :
- 1.652 condemnations, compared to 605 for Russia, 548 for Poland, 494 for France, 476 for Ukraine, etc.
Italy's second place with 1.394 condemnations is a misleading false appearance : In fact, most of them (999) concern mere "procedural delays" in national courts. Same for France.
On the contrary, Turkey was condemned 180 times for Killings, 192 times for Torture or Inhuman/Degrading treatments, 340 times for arbitrary deprivation of Liberty, 528 times for "Unfair trial", and 169 times for oppression of Freedom of speech, (etc). And the latest, 2008 numbers, indicate no change in this trend, (See supra).
The current Spanish CoE Presidency (November 2008 - May 2009) has made of the implementation of ECHR's judgements its 1st Priority.
ECHR's President, Jean-Paul Costa, stressed in its 2009 Annual Press Conference, CoE Member States' obligation to implement the judgements, according to Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Moreover, if CoE's Committee of Ministers delays to ensure implementation, then, the repetition of violations in similar cases provokes a multiplication of complaints tabled to the Court, which overload the mecanism for the protection of Human Rights, denounced Costa.
A series of Debates on "the situation of Human Rights in Europe", focusing on the "need to fight against Impunity" of perpetrators of grave crimes, is currently prepared by CoE's Parliamentary Assembly for the session of June 2009.
The final Timing comes shortly AFTER the EU Elections, but the main Reports should have been adopted before.
Meanwhile, French President Sarkozy and German Chancelor Merkel's recent call "for a Political Europe" in 2009 EU Elections (See earlier "correspondence from Paris, Elysee Palace), seems more and more endorsed also by other EU Countries' Top MEPs :
Thus, f.ex., EU Parliament's 1st vice-President, Greek MEP Mrs Rodi KRATSA, speaking to "EuroFora", agreed that 2009 EU Election would be a "naturally good" opportunity to debate what really interests EU Citizens : "The Future of a Political Europe, able to face the Economic Crisis, with a Culture and identity which attracts the People"
(Photo taken earlier during Sarkozy's 1st visit at EU Parliament, in 2007 : Sarkozy and Merkel's Ideas for a Political Europe inspire also other EU politicians accross the continent)...
Polls
SMF Recent Topics SA
- Record Hospitalisati... (0) by Breadman
- How Many Infected by... (1) by Thunderbird
- Real Cause for Europ... (0) by Breadman
- Interesting Australi... (0) by Aurora
- Plus de mRNA Faux-&q... (0) by Aurora
- EU: Lukashenko as E... (0) by WKalina
- Why NATO in Ukraine,... (0) by Geopol
- Afghanistan's key : ... (0) by Thunderbird
- Anti-Pass Demonstrat... (0) by Aurora
- Veran - Fioraso : Mê... (1) by JohnsonE