ABTTF President: ‘‘Recently, the judicial system in our country has been under the influence of politics more than ever and legal cases related to fundamental rights and freedoms are politicised. The most obvious example of this is that our country has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to three associations of our community for the past 16 years’’.
According to the data presented by President of the Athens Bar Association Dimitris K. Vervesos, the judicial system in Greece is very slow and lags far behind European standards.
Vervesos points out that the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe is preparing its 2024 evaluation report on the judicial systems in the Member States with data from 2022, but Greece has not submitted the relevant numerical data to the European Union (EU) in many cases. Vervesos noted that this situation shows the lack of statistical data from the authorised units of the Ministry of Justice and exposes the country irreparably to the European institutions.
‘‘Reports of European institutions and public opinion surveys reveal one after another the serious issues in the functioning of the judicial system in our country Greece. Recently, the judicial system in our country has been under the influence of politics more than ever and legal cases related to fundamental rights and freedoms are politicised. The most obvious example of this is that our country has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to three associations of our community for the past 16 years. By following a strategy to deliberately prolong the judicial process, our country disregards its obligations arising from the European Convention on Human Rights, to which it is a party, and ignores the warnings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe every time’’, said Halit Habip Oğlu, President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF).
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