Aarau - The Venice Commission was represented in a conference on direct democracy organised by the Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe (IRI) and the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy (C2D)]. The interventions of representatives of the Commission focused on "Direct-democracy European-style - the recommendations of the Council of Europe" (Pierre Garrone) and "Popular referendums in post-communist countries as a constraint on representative government" (Peter Paczolay).