During its closed plenary session in Venice, Italy, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission elected Marta Cartabia as its new president. Marta Cartabia is a full professor of constitutional law at Bocconi University in Milan, President Emerita of the Constitutional Court of Italy and former Minister of Justice of Italy.
The Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters also adopted the updated Rule of law checklist, as well as a series of key opinions and texts, which are being published on its website this week. Those included four opinions concerning Latvia (regarding its draft law on the withdrawal from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – the Istanbul Convention), the Republic of Moldova (on the draft law on the Prosecution Office for anti-corruption and combatting organised crime), North Macedonia (on the draft law on adequate and fair representation) and Ukraine (on the draft amendments to certain legislative acts regarding the improvement of the competitive selection process for the position of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine). The Commission also adopted a follow-up opinion in respect of Montenegro (on some questions relating to the procedure of early termination of the mandate of Constitutional Court judges due to age limits), a report and an amicus curiae brief for the European Court of Human Rights. Further details on the items the Venice Commission examined can be found in the synopsis of the plenary session.
