When the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban on crucifixes in Italian schools, you can either celebrate the liberal march of secularism or deplore the illiberal attack on religious expression and national tradition.
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The ECJ in Luxembourg does follow the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe - a title confusingly close to the EU's Council.
As the EU expands eastwards towards the ECHR States of Turkey, Croatia and Moldavia, there will be increasing civil and maybe criminal overlap between the two courts. Hopefully the ECHR in Strasbourg with its Franglais-speaking 'imprescriptibility' judges will disappear as redundant.