On the sidelines of the informal conference of Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe, which took place on 16 June 2026 in Strasbourg, the President of the Court, Mattias Guyomar, met with David van Weel, Minister of Justice and Security of the Netherlands. Corinna Wissels, the judge elected in respect of the Netherlands, and Marialena Tsirli, the Registrar of the Court, also attended the meeting. The parties discussed the Court’s landmark Grand Chamber judgment, Ukraine and the Netherlands v Russia, as well as the importance of accountability for Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine.

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