Elisabeth Margue, Luxembourg's Minister of Justice;
Credit: MJUST
Luxembourg's Ministry of Justice has reported that Minister Elisabeth Margue visited Strasbourg, France as part of the Grand Duchy's Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 February 2025.
On Wednesday, during her speech at the Council of Europe Ministers' Meeting, Luxembourg's Minister of Justice stressed the importance of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), knowledge of which by national courts is essential. The ministry added that she advocated effective application of the European Convention on Human Rights through execution of ECHR judgments.
"As a founding member of the Council of Europe, Luxembourg supports the values of democracy and the rule of law, and will spare no effort to combat threats to these values," said Minister Margue.
The Justice Minister also had the opportunity to meet the Council's Director General for Human Rights and Rule of Law to discuss ongoing cases.
She later met with a delegation of Luxembourg students participating in the international Model European Parliament in Strasbourg.
On Thursday, Patrick Engelberg, Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, welcomed Minister Margue, as well as her Romanian counterpart, Justice Minister Radu Marinescu, the Turkish Deputy Minister of Justice, the President of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, Stanislav Kravchenko, and ECHR President Marko Bošnjak, for an exchange of views.
Subsequently, Minister Margue delivered the opening speech at the conference for the launch of the ECHR's knowledge-sharing platform in Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian, the languages of the largest providers of applications to the Court. As reported by Luxembourg's Ministry of Justice, the now-wider accessibility of this platform, which allows legal professionals and the general public to access the ECHR's decisions, case-law analyses and thematic factsheets in these new language versions, represents an "important and promising step forward" in increasing the effectiveness of the principle of subsidiarity.
The Luxembourg Presidency (running from November 2024 to May 2025) will continue its activities on Monday 17 March 2025 at the conference "Better enforcement of national judicial decisions: a requirement for human rights and the rule of law" and on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April 2025 at the conference on the essential role of prosecutions in combating impunity for crimes committed against journalists.
