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in: Diplomacy, Society and the COVID-19 Challenge, Edited By Erman Akıllı,Burak Güneş,Ahmet Gökbel, Editor, Routledge, London/New York , New York, pp.265-277, 2023
States worldwide have adopted different COVID-19-related measures since the start of the pandemic. This chapter focuses on the situation in Europe and the Council of Europe member states' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. A lack of coordination, a solidarity deficit, and heavy restrictions on exercising human rights and fundamental freedoms protected under the European Convention on Human Rights have prevailed among the Council of Europe member states. This chapter examines the extent the European human rights mechanisms, in particular the European Court of Human Rights, can effectively re-deliver the common European values within its legal space. The chapter overall discusses several complex legal and moral issues that the European Court of Human Rights might have to tackle soon while delivering judgments linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.