(ANSA) - STRASBOURG, MAY 4 - ''Italy in recent years has
significantly improved the situation: from 17,000 pending
appeals a few years ago to less than 3,000 today,'' said the
outgoing president of the European Court of Human Rights, Guido
Raimondi, at the end of his nine-year term. ''I leave the
European Court of Human Rights in fairly good health but with an
unresolved problem, that is the excessive amount of pending
cases, which prevents us from giving a reasonable response to
all those who turn to Strasbourg'', Raimondi said. ''The
solution to this problem, which is the main problem for the
Strasbourg Court - he added - is in the hands of the States and
especially depends on those five countries from which 70% of the
pending appeals arrive''.
Raimondi underlined that ''an improvement in the implementation
of the European convention on human rights at the national
level, and especially in those five countries, Russia, Romania,
Ukraine, Turkey, and Italy, could allow the Court to breathe''.
In order to achieve this goal, according to the president, it is
absolutely necessary that the European and national judges work
together to implement the European convention of human rights''.
Raimondi highlighted that, in order to enhance dialogue, the
Strasbourg Court has two instruments: a digital platform that
allows the national Supreme Courts and the Strasbourg Supreme
Court to exchange information and the so-called protocol 16,
which allows the Supreme Courts to ask the Strasbourg Court an
opinion on the interpretation and implementation of the European
Convention on Human Rights in a specific case. (ANSA).
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