Volume 83 (2026), Issue 1-2

Human rights and international cooperation are currently being intentionally questioned by states and actors that do not wish to see limitations on power holders. Doing a tour primarily around Northern Europe we review key legal developments and...

This contribution examines the 2024 reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), introduced through the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, focussing in particular on the role of externalisation in the so-called ‘comprehensive approach’ the...

This study examines the monitoring procedure of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). It argues that, despite its initially modest design, the system has developed into a complex and increasingly demanding...

This article shows that while the Council of Europe's Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities maintains formally progressive positions, it is implicitly lowering its standards in practice. The...

There exists an ambitious legal set-up protecting minorities and minority languages in the European regional system. The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) and the European Charter for Regional or Minority...

After WWII and until 1954, Greenland was listed as a non-self-governing territory under chapter XI of the UN Charter, but Denmark as the administering power never allowed for decolonisation and instead incorporated the territory info metropolitan...