Judiciary

President Klaus Iohannis states in a message conveyed on Sunday, on the occasion of Justice Day, that the recent years have been marked by repeated attempts to subordinate justice to politics, through hasty amendments to the legislation organizing the judiciary, the statute of magistrates and the criminal law, but this "assault" has triggered the prompt reaction of citizens and magistrates.

Almost thirteen years after airing of TV show Insajder (Insider) on television B92, in which the son of former district attorney in Belgrade Milovan Bozovic was mentioned, Supreme Court of Cassation in Belgrade had judged in favor of Brankica Stankovi and VeranMmati, who were legally represented in the process by Kruna Savovi, partner in ivkovi Samardi law office.

The wages of all judges, prosecutors and investigators will increase by 10% in 2019. The same increase also applies to all employees of the judiciary, reports Dnevnik. 

This was voted unanimously by the Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council, only the chairman of the Supreme Court of Cassation Lozan Panov was absent.

AFP - Poland was banned Monday from the EU body representing the member states' judicial institutions over its perceived lack of independence after controversial government reforms.

Romania's Attorney General Augustin Lazar had a meeting with visiting State Minister for European Affairs of the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Roth, who voiced concern over recent amendments to Romania's criminal legislation.

The representatives of the civil society elected members in the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) have taken note with great concern of the lack of reaction of the competent authorities towards the disclosure in the media concerning the serious corruption deeds of the judicial positions and duties regarding the forged processes case, reads a release sent on Tuesday by Romeu Chelariu and Vict

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw and towns across Poland on Thursday night to protest the ruling party's drive to reorganize all levels of the judiciary, including contentious legislation that gives control of the nation's Supreme Court to the president instead of to judges, according to ABC News.

Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has said that it analyzed various messages of 102,000 suspects accused of being members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and determined that they were sent through ByLock, the group's encrypted messaging application, Sabah daily reported on June 26.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has discussed with Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov opportunities to improve the mechanisms of interaction between the institutions involved in the fight against corruption and organized crime, reported BNR.