In the framework of the 2nd part of the 2023 Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), MP Kostis Efstathiou participated in a debate in the Plenary Session on the European Convention on Human Rights and national constitutions.
Mr. Efstathiou said that, regardless of any formal hierarchy between the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the national supreme courts, it is understood and accepted that it is the principles of effectiveness, subsidiarity and proportionality that determine the effective protection of human rights.
Mr Efstathiou pointed out that the multi-layered dimension of existing legal frameworks should not allow Member States to evade their obligations or to interpret legal rules in a way that hinders the dynamic development of the legal protection of human rights. On the contrary, the Cypriot MEP stressed, judicial decisions and their interpretations, regardless of their origin, must ensure the maximum and most effective protection of human rights and ultimately prevail and take precedence over any other limited legal interpretation.
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