Ombudsman

Bulgaria's Parliament on May 20 elected Diana Kovacheva as national ombudsman with 173 votes in favour, none against and three abstentions.

She was the only candidate for the post and has been in office since September, after former national ombudsperson Maya Manolova resigned in order to run in the local government elections.

The draft law which is to be approved in Monday's Government meeting includes a series of measures which can be taken during the state of alert regarding the unfolding of some economic-social activities within the public institutions, so that the health and life be protected in a "coordinated and coherent" manner," Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu said on Monday in the beginning of the Gov't me

The Ombudsman requests the inclusion of COVID-19 in the category A of infectious diseases, so that the temporary work incapacity be compensated 100 percent, the Ombudsman's Office said in a release on Thursday.

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban declared himself "shocked" on Wednesday by the Constitutional Court's decision to accept an Ombudsman's notification of a government emergency ordinance regulating fines issued under in state of emergency for the enforcement of the coronavirus lockdown.

The Ombudsman requested from Minister of Health, Nelu Tataru, clarifications regarding the methodology to supervise the acute respiratory syndrome due to the novel coronavirus now and after May 15.

Romania's Ombudsman on Wednesday posted an own petition on its website, calling attention to logging.

The electronic commerce sector in Greece has proven unable to respond to the extraordinary conditions created by the measures put in place to curb the Covid-19 epidemic.

As Croatian MPs discussed a proposed law amendment, that would allow authorities easier access to citizens' information amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, opposition lawmakers warned that it could limit citizens' rights to freedom of movement and their privacy.

The Ombudsman asks the President of Romania to declare state of emergency over the coronavirus, and Parliament to approve it.

The Public Supervisory Authority (Ombudsman) has said that most of the refugees rushing to the Turkish-Greek border are non-Syrians living in Turkey.

The authority conducted a field research on the refugee crisis on the border between Turkey and Greece, two weeks after Ankara announced that it will no longer prevent migrants from trying to reach Europe.