Seventy-five years after its approval (November 4, 1950), the European Convention on Human Rights The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is at the heart of the continent's political debate. Unregulated immigration, security, and the rapid advancement of technologies like artificial intelligence have reopened the discussion about how far a convention born from the ashes of World War II can—or should—be reinterpreted. But the fundamental question is more delicate: to what extent can the ECHR be made more flexible without jeopardizing the basic protections it is theoretically meant to guarantee?