Contributions to the 2005 Warsaw Summit

The European Court of Human Rights has issued a memorandum in which it outlines its proposal for a contribution to the Council of Europe's Third Summit of Heads of State and Government to be held in Warsaw on 16-17 May 2005. The memorandum calls for a long-term strategy to preserve the effectiveness of the human rights protection system set up by the European Convention on Human Rights (1950) in the face of the rising volume of cases with which the Court has to deal. (more...)

Luzius Wildhaber, President of the European Court of Human Rights
''As far as the Court is concerned, the Summit needs to address two issues: the Court’s future and the European Union’s accession to the Convention''.

Interview


		documents

		Memorandum of the European Court of Human Rights on the Third Summit of the Council of Europe Press release

		reform of the ECHR

		Topic file

		web site

		European Court of Human Rights

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) wants the Third Summit of Council of Europe Heads of State and Government, to be held in Warsaw on 16 and 17 May 2005, to define the Council of Europe's place in the European institutional landscape and to "provide the Organisation with a clear political mandate for the coming years". (more...)
Parliamentary Assembly’s contribution to the 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe

René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly
''There is therefore no better place than the Council of Europe to implement the “good neighbourhood policy” which the EU plans to introduce''

Interview


		speeches

		René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly - March 2005

		question to René van der Linden

		"What are your hopes and expectations for this upcoming Summit in Warsaw?"

		web site

		Parliamentary Assembly