Britain has called for reform of the European Court of Human Rights, as the government attempts to push through new legislation that would allow asylum seekers arriving on small boats to be immediately sent to Rwanda for processing and resettlement, with no right to appeal.
Last June, judges at the court imposed a last-minute injunction preventing the first flight from taking off. The European Court of Human Rights is the judicial body of the Council of Europe, a human rights organization with 46 member states, and it is not part of the European Union.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly pledged to, in his words,"stop the boats." Last year, Sunak's predecessor Boris Johnson signed a deal with Kigali that would see an unspecified number of migrants flown there for processing, asylum and resettlement with no right to appeal. Britain has already paid Rwanda $150 million under the agreement."It is, of course, a shared challenge.
In response, the British government has introduced new legislation that would override European court decisions. The law is currently being debated in Parliament. "We want to make sure that the European Court is always conducting itself in a way which is fair, which is effective, which is transparent," he said.But Europe is not in the mood to meet Britain's demands after its exit from the European Union, says Camino Mortera-Martinez, a Brussels-based analyst with the Center for European Reform.
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