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Protocol no. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) establishes the possibility for the highest courts and tribunals of the Member States that ratify it to request the Strasbourg Court “to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms” defined in the ECHR itself. In Autumn 2020 the Italian Parliament, when deciding to authorise the ratification of Protocol no. 15 to the ECHR, at the same time blocked adherence to Protocol no. 16. Why?
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This page is a summary of: The Failure by Italy to Ratify Protocol no. 16 to the ECHR, The Italian Review of International and Comparative Law, October 2021, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/27725650-01010009.
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