a man who also worked a lot for Europe

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It is September 1991. The truce in Yugoslavia is fragile. Robert Badinter, then president of the Constitutional Council, was responsible for imagining a constitutional future for the Yugoslav Republics. Here he is questioned in The Hague: “ What is certain is that what was will no longer be and that the ways of force are excluded.»

Its action for the establishment of International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia has gone beyond the borders of Europe, as Jean-Dominique Giuliani, who chairs the Robert Schuman Foundationa European think tank: “We owe him, in part, the creation of the International Criminal Court through the effort of conviction and education that he continued to advocate throughout Europe.»

“Considered a European»

Robert Badinter was also asked by several countries of the former USSR to help them write their Constitution: “He was considered a European, a jurist of the highest level and convinced that human rights should be imposed even on States.», further indicates Jean-Dominique Giuliani.

In recent years, Robert Badinter, author of a book on the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, the accusationwas one of the whistleblowers in France on the consequences of the war in Ukraine for the European Union. This is what Jean-Dominique Giuliani particularly remembers: “He was among the personalities who were lucid about what the war in Ukraine and Russian aggression represented. For a long time he has seen Russia sinking under the pressure of the former KGB. I believe that his opinion also counted in the implementation of the action of the International Criminal Court. He was particularly severe, he was not the only one in France, but that was not in harmony with French diplomacy at the highest level, who thought that we could still speak with Vladimir Putin, which is now considered impossible.»

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