Speaking at the Court’s annual press conference on 25 January 2018, President Guido Raimondi reviewed the year 2017 and presented the statistics for the past year.
He referred in particular to the increase in the number of new cases, but said that a large number of applications had been declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies. In that connection the President reiterated the importance of the principle of subsidiarity, which requires applicants to exhaust national remedies before applying to the Court.

 Press release
 Speech by President Raimondi (in French only)
 

Multimedia

Webcast of the Press Conference Original version

Documents and Statistics

 Annual Report 2017
 Analysis of Statistics 2017