The European Policy Centre (EPC) put out a similar warning in its recent report on the state of the Union: "It is also doubtful whether the prevailing legalistic approach can compensate for a lack of political will and leadership and increasing differences of opinion and cacophony within the European Union".
The concept is beginning to be taken more seriously across the world and, therefore, it is important to adopt a legalistic approach to Islamic finance," he added.
Looking at the case from a legalistic point of view, from the point of view of the case being presented to an independent and unbiased tribunal, then I think he has a fair chance of coming out clean," said Karim.
Taken together, the government's long-standing practice of violent repression and its new legalistic tactics are creating the worst climate for press freedom since the country's unification in 1990," CPJ said in a report.