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Leaving aside any fallout from Brexit, there’s a world of difference between “can” and “has”. Until safeguards are proven to work and we have examples where th

• shadowgovt 7y ago
  """ Holds, by six votes to one, (a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicants, within three months from the date on which the judgment becomes final in accordance with Article 44 § 2 of the Convention, the following amounts, to be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable at the date of settlement: (i) to the applicants in the first of the joined cases: EUR 150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand euros), plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants, in respect of costs and expenses; (ii) to the applicants in the second of the joined cases: EUR 35,000 (thirty-five thousand euros), plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants, in respect of costs and expenses; """ https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#_Toc524359882 https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#_Toc524359882 One can debate how effective a EUR 185,000 fine is in restraining the UK, but it strongly indicates the behavior was unacceptable and will be considered unacceptable moving forward. Seems safeguards work.