nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210527-204831-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210527s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210527-204831-0 doi eng 342 23 Thavard, Blaga Author aut The Admissibility Hurdle - An Evolving Façade for Politically Motivated Application Rejections by the ECtHR Thavard, Blaga Verfassungsblog 2021-05-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The entry into force of a new Protocol in August 2021 indicates that the ECtHR will implement even more stringent admissibility criteria which provides the institution with more tools to reject legitimate applications and to hide the political motivation behind such decisions. The European Court of Human Rights has long faced burning criticism for declaring applications inadmissible when faced with prima facie flagrant human rights abuses by autocratic regimes, such as Turkey, putting in question the credibility of the Court which is expected to be a center of legal excellence. CC BY-SA 4.0 admissibility Bulgaria ECHR ECtHR Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-admissibility-hurdle/ raw object