The FINANCIAL — The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD),
have called for the swift adoption of the constitutional amendments to strengthen the independence of the judiciary, which have received an overall positive opinion from the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, according to PACE.
“We call upon all political forces in the Verkhovna Rada to address the remaining recommendations of the Venice Commission and to adopt these constitutional amendments without further delay,” said the two co-rapporteurs. They underscored that the constitutional changes necessary to strengthen the independence of the judiciary were a long-standing recommendation of the Parliamentary Assembly.
“The adoption and efficient implementation of these reforms is also very important in the context of the Association Agreement with the European Union, whose signature by the EU we strongly support,” they added.
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