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Ljubljana – The 8 March Institute has already collected enough signatures to introduce a bill aimed at repealing several government-sponsored laws that the NGO finds harmful. The campaign started on Wednesday and the minimum threshold of signatures, 5,000, was crossed already that day, said the NGO, which aims to get 60,000 signatures.

Ljubljana – The Social Democrats (SD) endorsed their manifesto for the 24 April election on Saturday as their leader Tanja Fajon offered the opposition party as a safe and reliable choice between the dangers of the incumbent government on the one hand and the unpredictability of new experiments on the other.

The Hungarian government is particularly worried about the security of the 130,000-strong Hungarian minority living in the Zakarpattia Oblast (Transcarpathian region) of southwest Ukraine.

Between 2010 and 2020 in Serbia, at least 26 civil lawsuits were brought against journalists, media outlets, civil society organisations and activists as a result of their efforts to monitor rights violations, says a report published on Wednesday by international human rights group Article 19, the ABA Centre for Human Rights, and the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia, NUNS.

With Albania in the final stages of drafting a new strategy for tackling violent extremism, experts say authorities must do more to address the online propaganda that is helping to radicalise some Albanians.

Turkey's president announced a set of measures on Feb. 16 that aim to bring relief to households and businesses reeling from soaring electricity bills.

A new map drastically reducing the number of courts in the Albania, to address the shortage of judges caused by the vetting process and the overload of the justice system, has drawn criticism from rights watchdogs, which say it will reduce access to the courts. The High Judicial Council, HJC, and the Ministry of Justice proposed the map last December.

Following a preliminary assessment visit to Hungary in January to meet election officials, civil society representatives, and ruling party and opposition politicians, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in its report that aspects of the election that could benefit from further assessment and the presence of election-day observers included: "voter registra

Working Group of the National Convention on the European Union for Chapter 35 organized a meeting today with Miroslav Lajk, the EU Representative for the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Ankara has accused the Council of Europe of interfering in an ongoing judicial process on businessman Osman Kavala after the body's political organ voted in favor of moving the infringement procedure against Turkey forward.