euronews interview - Human rights: judging the top judge

Human rights in Europe is the specialist subject of Jean-Paul Costa. This French judge presides over the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

The court can concern itself with any citizen of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.

It was 60 years ago, just after the Second World War, that the 10 founding governments of the EU signed the European Convention on Human Rights.

Since then, the Council of Europe has expanded and with it the protection of rights and freedoms of Europe's citizens.

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