Constitutional Court

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has drafted an appeal to the Constitutional Court against the new debt of BGN 16 B.

A motion needs to be backed by at least 48 MPs to reach the Constitutional Court, with BSP having a total of 39 MPs, according to dnevnik.bg.

On April 15, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu read out his election manifesto - a manifesto that actually states he will leave his position if he wins the elections.

If you ask whether or not the election manifestos of political parties should be taken seriously, I would say ?no.? They write the manifestos, but no voters read them. Later, they are all forgotten.

BELGRADE - Representatives of the Association of Pensioners called on the Serbian parliament and the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to declare the decision about pension cuts as unconstitutional.

The former head of Turkey?s top science body and two of its employees were detained on April 14 for hiring an employee with a fake diploma, amid allegations of illegal wire-tapping targeting senior government officials.

At a plenary session on Tuesday, Parliament decided, 292 to one, that in order to approve the criminal investigation, remanding or pre-trial detention of MPs the majority vote of the MPs attending the vote session will be enough.

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Constitutional Court rules on Kosovo-related motions

BELGRADE -- A decree on the control of crossings along the administrative line with the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija is not in line with the Constitution.

This has been determined by the Constitutional Court of Serbia.

BELGRADE - The decree on the control of crossings along the administrative line with the autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) is not in line with Serbia's Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Serbia has ascertained.

All 236 suspects in the "Balyoz" (Sledgehammer) coup plot case were acquitted March 31 after the case's prosecutor argued that digital data in the files submitted as evidence in the case was "fake" and did not constitute evidence.

Turkey's main opposition party has said it will appeal to the high court for the annulment of a controversial security package on the grounds that it undermines constitutional rights and freedoms, following parliament's approval of the bill early March 27.

Social media users who share content that has been subject to a legal complaint in Turkey will be punished, according an omnibus bill currently being debated in parliament, daily Radikal has reported.