Law

Dimitris Zimianitis will be Greece's European Union prosecutor after being selected on Tuesday by a 12-member committee.

In his book The Origins of Political Order, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the rule of law is the most difficult pillar for a successful modern society to construct.

The strategy also says that the state prosecution "should file a proposal to transfer a case at the earliest possible stage of the criminal proceedings".

Montenegro's Prosecutorial Council decided on Tuesday that Ivica Stankovic should remain the country's acting Supreme State Prosecutor because no one has applied to be his successor.

The Bosnian state prosecution launched an appeal on Tuesday calling for the verdict which cleared Slavko Milovanovic of committing crimes against humanity in the village of Resagici in May 1992 to be quashed and a retrial ordered.

There have been three cases and three attempts at property fraud through extortion of elderly people, Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev told a press briefing on today's police raid in Orlandovtsi quarter, a Focus News Agency reporter said.

The new parliament legislative year will start on Oct. 1 In this legislative year, priority will be given to reviewing justice and economy as well as to blockages in the new system. Judicial reform legislation is expected to dominate parliament's agenda.

The number of foreign investors who were naturalized since the new regulation easing the conditions to get citizenship last year has hit 2,611, according to the Interior Ministry.

The decision of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend Parliament for 5 weeks is illegal, the Supreme Court of the UK has ruled.

Magistrates initially stated that the decision fell within their jurisdiction, thereby rebutting a previous ruling by the English Supreme Court, which ruled that suspending Parliament's work was not a court's prerogative.

The idea that rivals sometimes need to be put in jail so that a party can win an election has well and truly been condemned. Judgement on politicians, not least prime ministers, is passed when the ballots open. This was the case in the summer with Greece's previous premier.