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Europe is creating a new international court for Putin — one he may never face while in power
7 August 2026 by Christine Van den Wyngaert
Creating an institution that cannot, by design, reach the one man it was created for is not accountability. It is expensive symbolism — and it costs Europe exactly the credibility it is trying to project, argues former ICC judge Christine Van den Wyngaert.
The ICC is in its worst crisis yet — and Europe’s double standards are a big part of the problem
16 July 2026 by Christine Van den Wyngaert
A tribunal created for one conflict — while acts of aggression in the Middle East and Latin America go unanswered — serves the court’s critics their strongest argument on a silver platter: that international criminal justice is a selective instrument of Western power, not a universal principle.