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Slovenia's parliament has adopted with 66 votes in favor and five against the legal changes that give greater powers to the army in protecting the state border.

Only deputies from the United Left, who think the amendments are unconstitutional, voted against on Wednesday morning.

Constitutional amendments drafted by MPs will top the agenda at a meeting of Bulgaria's Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva and a delegation of the Venetian Commission with the Council of Europe, officials have said.

Prior to that members of team visiting Sofia will hold talks with lawmakers from the interim Constitution Committee, according to Parliament's press office.

I?m not being ironic. I?m not joking. President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is right when he spoke about a ?system change? in Turkey. Indeed, the situation has truly ?changed.? 

Erdo?an was elected by popular vote last year. He received 52 percent of the vote. But right now, the first party in parliament got just over 40 percent of the votes in the June general election.

Today, I was going to write about a couple of modest but positive moves by the Higher Education Board (YÖK), but when President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said the system had changed, I was more interested in that theme as a law person myself. 

The signing of a law that should enable for the formation of a special court for war crimes has been delayed in Kosovo.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga should have signed the law by midnight on Tuesday, but several opposition parties during the day asked the Constitutional Court "to appraise its constitutionality."

Turkey's top court ruled for a total of 190,000 Turkish Liras of compensation to be paid to the relatives of an inmate who was killed during a gendarmerie operation codenamed "Operation Return to Life" in Ankara's Ulucanlar Prison in September 1999. 

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has urged MPs to back the set of proposed amendments to the Constitution on Friday so that the implementation of the judicial reform is not delayed further.

A vote to change the constitution to allow the establishment of a controversial new special court to try Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas failed because not enough MPs voted in favour.

Nationalist Ataka party has demanded that the MP representing it in the Parliament Committee working on constitutional changes should leave the body.

The Turkish constitution and political tradition underlines presidential unaccountability for administrative actions he might take alone or together with the government. Except for treason, the president cannot be brought in front of justice as he enjoys unrestricted judicial immunity for all his actions as the top public official representing the integrity of the state and the nation and is ta