On 16 July 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of “BANCA SISTEMA S.P.A. v. ITALY”, finding that the Italian authorities’ prolonged failure to enforce court judgments in favour of the applicant company, as well as the impossibility of securing their enforcement through the courts, constituted a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (the right to a fair trial) and Article