An important implementation development unfolded at the (CoE) Committee of Ministers, which decided last week to consider referring the Cyprus v. Turkey case back to the Court for interpretation of the respondent government’s just satisfaction obligations regarding the property rights of the displaced Greek Cypriots, under Article Article 46§3 of the Convention. The CM Secretariat is instructed to draft an interim resolution on that matter for the June 2027 CM-DH meeting.

From the 9th to the 11th of June 2026, the Committee of Ministers is meeting for their second quarterly Human Rights Meeting of 2026. During the meeting, the Committee of Ministers will examine 65 leading judgments of the European Court of Human Rights that are pending implementation.

EIN members and partners, other civil society actors, lawyers and applicants have made 49 Rule 9 submissions in 33 leading cases under consideration. The list below sets out an overview of these submissions related to cases on the agenda.

On May 29th, 2026, EIN held its latest civil society briefing for Permanent Representations of the Council of Europe, ahead of the 1563rd Committee of Ministers Human Rights Meeting which will be held from 9th to 11th June 2026.

On 29 April 2026, the European Parliament adopted its response to the European Commission's 2025 Rule of Law Report, sending a clear and broadly-supported message — with 387 votes in favour, 191 against, 46 abstentions — that the European Union can no longer afford to treat rule of law compliance as a bureaucratic requirement with no real-world consequences.

On 23 April 2026, nine years after the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) condemned Romania's inaction in addressing domestic violence in Bălșan v. Romania, the country has enacted a landmark legislation on preventing and combating femicide. Despite the work to fully implement the judgment not being over yet, this legislation, which is the fruit of years of relentless advocacy, is already a blatant reminder of the key role played by civil society in turning judgments into effective rights and protection.

On 26 March 2026, a broad coalition of 63 civil society organisations and NHRIs addressed a joint letter to the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU, urging renewed political commitment to one of the European Union’s most fundamental pillars: the rule of law.

On March 19th, EIN attended the 2026 Council of Europe Litigators Meeting, organised in Strasbourg by the AIRE Centre together with the Open Society Justice Initiative, and bringing together litigators from Council of Europe States to exchange insights on substantive and procedural developments, share experiences, and discuss challenges in litigating cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

From the 9th to the 11th of March 2026, the Committee of Ministers is meeting for their first quarterly Human Rights Meeting of 2026. During the meeting, the Committee of Ministers will examine 59 leading judgments of the European Court of Human Rights that are pending implementation. 

EIN members and partners, other civil society actors, lawyers and applicants have made 49 Rule 9 submissions in 33 leading cases under consideration. The list below sets out an overview of these submissions related to cases on the agenda.

On November 21st, 2025, EIN held its latest civil society briefing for Permanent Representations of the Council of Europe, ahead of the 1545th Committee of Ministers Human Rights Meeting which will be held from 2nd to 4th December 2025.

On 2 and 3 February 2026, our member, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC), hosted the kick-off meeting of the Standing Up for Rights in Europe (SURE) project. The meeting brought together the consortium of five organisations, constituted in the framework of this project, to address a persistent and systemic challenge: the gap between judgments of Europe’s human rights courts and their effective implementation at national level.