part vi • european legal integration • nina-louisa arold lorenz a backlog of pending cases does not seem to have been eased by reform.76 The risk of over-use is very real, and the steady rise in applications lodged with the ECtHRand growing human rights issues at the CJEUindicate the continuing problems with implementation at member state level. ‘La cour est malade de son succès’ as oneECtHRinterviewee said, and it is true of both European courts.77 76 Speech by theECtHRPresident Raimondo, in European Court of Human Rights, Annual Report 2018 of the European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe 2019, 13, 14, www.echr. coe.int: ‘One year ago I referred, on this very occasion, to the large number of cases before our Court. We then hand 80,000 applications pending. Twelve months later this figure has fallen considerably and it now stands at 56,000. While this is undeniably a success, we are still a long way from finding ourselves in a satisfactory situation in terms of the backlog. To give you a full picture of our situation, I would point out that the biggest challenge currently facing us is that of the 26,000 pending Chamber cases. These cases constitute the hard core, so to speak, of our backlog and it is essential for us to give these applications the full attention that they deserve, as they are often significant and raise more serious issues.’ 77 See Arold 2007, 28. 318
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