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The supervisors of the PhDs do not admit students (unless you are talking of non-funded external candidates). European PhDs go through the same hiring procedure as Assistant Professors - pre-screening by academic sponsorship before an application, HR screening, academic committee screening, interviews by a different academic committee, and then another different committee headed (usually) by the Dean appoints the person upon recommendation from the academic committee that interviewed the person. Just so you know, PhDs in Europe, as employees, get all the fringe benefits that full professors get (thirteenth month salary, work-from-home expenses, hybrid working, travel allowance, research funding etc.) - their salaries are just unequal (which is also generally negotiated nationally by labour unions so good nonetheless).
(Anecdotal evidence: At least in The Netherlands and Denmark, for every single PhD vacancy advertised, about 120 people apply). And yes, PhDs are not admitted for a programme, they apply against vacancies just like any other job.
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https://www.nls.ac.in/news-events/meet-our-new-phd-scholars/
https://www.nls.ac.in/news-events/meet-our-new-students-llm-batch-2021-22/