Monitoring Committee

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic met with the rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Axel Schafer on Monday and expressed commitment to further cooperation.

Pressure is growing on the Albanian government over its "anti-defamation" laws, after the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, CoE, said it had asked its advisory body, the Venice Commission, for its opinion.

Over 20,000 jobs for people with disabilities have been announced by employers who want to use state support through funding under one of the Human Resources Development Operational Program schemes. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Labor Zornitsa Rusinova at a meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Program.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Monday that talks with a Venice Commission delegation will focus on Romania's justice legislation, amendments to the criminal codes, the transposition of European directives into the Romanian legislation, and getting other pieces of legislation in line with the rulings of the Constitutional Court.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on April 24 blasted a call by the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) for the postponement of Turkey's upcoming early elections on June 24.

Additional BGN 80 million are provided by the government to tackle unemployment in Bulgaria. Money will be directed to long-term unemployed and unskilled people. This is what Deputy Social Minister Zornitsa Rusinova told in front of the Bulgarian National Television.

Naxos, Paros, Kalymnos, Leros are the four islands of the South Aegean Region that are part of the approved Strategic Plan of the South Aegean Region for the construction of diving parks.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met on Wednesday in Belgrade with rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

During the meeting, Brnabic told Samad Seyidov and Maria Guzenina that the Serbian government, by implementing fundamental reforms and introducing European standards, is resolved to create a modern Serbia.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has accused the Venice Commission of being a "mouthpiece of Turkey's opposition," criticizing the timing and wording of its new report on the government-supported constitutional amendment to shift Turkey to an executive presidential system. 

A body of constitutional law experts has warned of a ''one-person regime'' in Turkey, a German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has reported, quoted by DW.