The summer has started and this is the time of the year when the French top administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, is more or less expected to adopt a brief ruling or 'ordonnance' on swimming gear.
The decision it has issued in 2022 stops the French city of Grenoble from allowing certain "loose-fitting bathing suits" in municipal pools.
Yet the same co...
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Stephanos Stavros is a lawyer who has worked for the European Court of Human Rights, and was previously the executive secretary of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. His views here are personal, not those of those organisations.