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15/01/2014 GMT

President of the European Court of Human Rights - Dean Spielmann

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Is the European Court of Human Rights an infringement on national sovereignty?

Is the European Court of Human Rights fundamental in safeguarding liberties or is it undemocratic and an infringement on national sovereignty?

Eight hundred million Europeans’ fundamental rights and liberties are supposed to be safeguarded by the European Court of Human Rights. It is an institution steeped in European idealism and ambition, but does it work? Hardtalk speaks to the President of the Strasbourg based court Dean Spielmann. Critics condemn it as an undemocratic, unaccountable infringement on national sovereignty - do they have a case?

(Photo: President of the European Court of Human Rights, judge Dean Spielmann. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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