Gianni Buquicchio

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu will participate, in Cluj, on Thursday, in the international conference devoted to marking 20 years since the adoption by the Council of Europe and the signing and ratification by Romania of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities, informs a press release remitted to AGERPRES.

Bulgaria's Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov and Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), have discussed Bulgaria's judicial reform strategy and the independence of the judiciary in the country.

Ivanov is on a two-day working visit to Strasbourg on March 16-17.

“The state’s essence and raison d’etre is to maintain security for justice” said Haşim Kılıç, the president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court. “If that fails, political, economic and social crises become inevitable.”