The Luxembourg Human Rights Court
John Dalli has been a politician for more than three decades, has been an EU Commissioner for the last two years, and yet he thinks there’s something called the ‘Luxembourg Human Rights Court’.
He told his press conference in Brussels a couple of days ago that he would be taking his case to “Luxembourg”.
Embarrassingly, he was corrected by a polite journalist who prompted him with “Strasbourg”, to which he replied:
“I am not a lawyer and I don’t know about these things.”
Well, I’m not a lawyer either, and I’m not a politician or an EU Commissioner, but even I know that it’s called the European Court of Human Rights and it’s in Strasbourg.
And I know too, as Dalli should, that you can’t just take your suit there, but must first exhaust all options in Malta, i.e. right up to the Constitutional Court.
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Perhaps he meant the European Court of Justice which is based in Luxembourg.
The Judean Peoples’ Front.
No, the people’s front of Judea.
I mean, what has the EU done for…..US?
U ejja, mhux xorta, Daph? LuxemBOURG and StrasBOURG, Bourg ‘l hemm u Bourg ‘l hawn, x differenza taghmel?
U sittin miljun ‘l hemm u sittin miljun ‘l hawn …
So Dalli will be taking the EU to the EHCR which is a Council of Europe court which has nothing to do with the Union.
Joe Debono Grech is representative to the Council of Europe.
At the moment he simply knows nothing. He is just paranoid and obsessed in defensive mode.
An attack of Debonitis, perhaps?
As far as I am aware, the only court competent in staff matters of the EC is the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
“He told his press conference in Brussels a couple of days ago that he would be taking his case to ‘Luxembourg’.”
I find this rather strange. He takes the decision to initiate legal proceedings in a court of law without consulting a lawyer and without making a findout as to what will be involved.
With even the barest minimum of fact finding, he would have established the Court he is referring to and communicated it accordingly to the press.
Deciding on the hoof is hardly the best way for Dalli to deal with his situation.
[Daphne – ‘without making a find out/minghajr jaghmel fajndawt’. I really love that expression. In English, you’d just say ‘without finding out’.]