European Parliament ‘s Committee on Constitutional Affairs held last week a hearing on the institutional aspects of the European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. A topical intervention was made by Mr Holovaty, of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Sub-Committee on Human Rights. He argues that the EU should accede to the European Convention on Human Rights »within a couple of years«. Some of the most important paragraphs from his intervention are reproduced below: For me, the situation is not as complicated as it looks at first…