Recent and Current Events
11/10/2024 - 12/10/2024
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista - On 11-12 October 2024 the Venice Commission will hold its third plenary session of the year, with an agenda that includes, in particular, seven opinions concerning three countries (Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Poland).
14/10/2024
On 14 October 2024 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of San Marino and the Venice Commission organise in San Marino a conference titled “Aspects of Constitutionalism in European small-sized States”, under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset. The conference brings together international and constitutional law experts and representatives of Council of Europe monitoring and expert bodies. The conference is composed of three sessions focusing on: Constitutional aspects of European small-sized States; The interaction between European small-sized States and th... read more
04/10/2024 - 05/10/2024
Rabat - The Venice Commission and the Secretariat General of the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco are organising an international conference entitled “International Conventions in the Internal Legal Order : place and reception”. The conference will take place in Rabat on 4-5 October 2024. It will gather senior civil servants from various Moroccan ministries and other state bodies, Venice Commission members and experts from France, Greece, Italy and Tunisia as well as representatives from the National Human Rights Council, the academia and non-governmental organisations of Morocco.
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03/10/2024 - 04/10/2024
On 3 and 4 October 2024, a delegation of the Venice Commission carried out a mission to Türkiye in the context of the preparation of an Opinion on the composition of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors and the procedure for the election of its members.
The Venice Commission delegation met in Ankara with Members of the National Assembly; the Deputy Minister of Justice and other officials of the Ministry of Justice; the Acting President and other representatives of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors; the Secretary General of the Court of Cassation; the Vice-president and the S... read more
03/10/2024 - 03/10/2024
The Venice Commission was invited to participate in the Cyprus Forum 2024 in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 3 October 2024. Ms Hanna Suchocka, Honorary President of the Venice Commission, represented the Commission and participated in the panel on “Attorney General Powers”. The Cyprus Forum is the largest policy-making conference in Cyprus, co-organized by the NGO Oxygen for Democracy and the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. The forum brings together key figures from the public and private sectors, initiating dialogue on key areas of public policy.
02/10/2024
Strasbourg / online – Mr Ben Vermeulen, expert and former member of the Venice Commission in respect of the Netherlands, participated online in the meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly, which took place in Strasbourg on 2 October 2024, during the 4th Part of the Ordinary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly.
An exchange of views took place on recent developments in the country and on the follow-up of the Venice Commission’s Opinion on the constitutional amendments adopted by the Hungarian parliament in December 2020.
26/09/2024
Paphos, Cyprus - The Commissioner for Administration and the Protection of Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Cyprus co-organised, with the Association of Mediterranean Ombudsmen (AOM) and the Venice Commission a regional conference entitled “Protecting human rights in the digital area and in social media”. The conference took place on September 26 in Paphos, Cyprus. Participants discussed the development of new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) and the challenges for the Ombudsmen and Mediators from both shores of the Mediterranean in the field of human rights protection... read more
25/09/2024
By letter dated 13 September 2024, the Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Ms Elisa Spiropali, requested an opinion of the Venice Commission on the relationship between the representative parliamentary democracy and the binding rulings of the Constitutional Court in the context of the role of the Assembly in examining motions on the incompatibility of an MP's mandate.
The draft opinion will be submitted for adoption at the 141st plenary session of the Commission (6 7 December 2024).
24/09/2024
From 18 to 20 September 2024, the Secretary of the Venice Commission participated in the 6th Congress of the Association of Asian Constitutional Courts (AACC), held in Bangkok, Thailand. The congress, themed “The Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions in Strengthening Constitutional Justice for a Sustainable Society,” brought together key figures in the field of constitutional justice.
The AACC is one of the regional groups forming the Bureau of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice (WCCJ), for which the Venice Commission serves as Secretariat.
During... read more