Tag: Venice Commission
News 07.05.20 | 12:57

SDSM push for early elections and rule by decree collides with Venice Commission rules

In its push to hold early elections as soon as possible, before the coronavirus epidemic has been resolved, the SDSM led Government is about to collide with recommendations made from the Venice Commission again. SDSM already violated recommendations from the leading Council of Europe legal authority,...
Macedonia 21.04.20 | 13:32

Government decrees adopted during the state of emergency to be reviewed by the Venice Commission

Government decrees adopted during the state of emergency will be reviewed by the Venice Commission, “Republika” has learned. The Commission requests the Government to submit all the Decrees it has adopted since the beginning of the state of emergency to see if there is a violation of the...
Macedonia 23.01.20 | 15:37

Mickoski urges the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate Deskoska’s appointment as member of the Venice Commission

Answering a question about the appointment of Justice Minister Renata Deskoska as a member of the Venice Commission, VMRO-DPMNE leaders Hristijan Mickoski stressed that it is scandalous. He explains that if one looks at Article 44 paragraph 2 of the Anti-Corruption Law, they will find that it is unacceptable...
Macedonia 13.12.19 | 15:05

Zdravev: Venice Commission’s remarks are correct

The President of the Judicial Council, Kiro Zdravev, considers that the Law on the Use of Languages cannot be enforced in court proceedings and that the Venice Commission’s remarks are correct. Speaking to “Sitel”, Zdravev says it is undisputed that the provisions of the Law on the...
Macedonia 12.12.19 | 11:14

Ahmeti: We used Venice Commission to reduce tensions and prejudices among Macedonians

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti said yesterday that the Law on the Use of Languages was sent to the Venice Commission for an opinion only to reduce the then current tensions that arose among Macedonians. According to the leader of the government’s coalition partner, the legal solution was then agreed and...
Macedonia 11.12.19 | 20:38

Outgoing Prime Minister: Venice Commission’s recommendations must be respected

Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, commenting on developments following the Venice Commission’s recommendations on the Law on Languages, said that as a government they do not intend to go back and intend to guarantee the rights they have been granted but to be practically applicable. The right...
Macedonia 11.12.19 | 16:21

Albanian parties united in the position that the law on languages will not change

VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group has announced that it will soon submit amendments to the Law on the Use of Languages, which, as the party says, will mean its compliance with the Venice Commission’s recommendations. Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi believes that MPs have the right to submit...
Macedonia 10.12.19 | 23:22

Milososki: Venice Commission slapped the SDSM-DUI coalition

Discussing the Law on the Use of Languages, VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Milososki said on the “Top tema” show that what happened now with the Venice Commission is an international slap to the SDSM-DUI coalition because it passed a law beyond European standards. Milososki emphasized that the criticism...
Macedonia 10.12.19 | 22:24

DUI did not want the entire Law on Languages to be sent to the Venice Commission

DUI did not know that the full law on the use of languages would be sent to the Venice Commission, but only expected parts of the law to be sent, party lawmaker Artan Grubi said on the ” Top tema” show. He also wanted to point out that the Venice Commission’s practice is to pass laws...
Macedonia 10.12.19 | 20:39

Grubi: It is absurd to discuss the God-given right to speak Albanian with three Macedonians

The use of the mother tongue is a God-given right, says DUI’s Artan Grubi, who thinks there should be no discussion of the Law on the Use of Languages, especially with three Macedonians. I hesitated all day whether to participate in the show, as I find it unreasonable to talk about the use of the...
Macedonia 10.12.19 | 20:15

Thimonier: Venice Commission opinion should be respected

Amnesty is a sensitive topic and I will not speak much about it, I will just say that the amnesties did not bring happiness here, French Ambassador Christian Thimonier said in an interview with “Macedonian Radio”. Amnesty is supposed to occur after some conviction and accountability and generally...
Macedonia 09.12.19 | 10:08

How can there be a date when a deputy prime minister threatens with inter-ethnic armed conflict?

Who wants a potentially conflicting state in its ranks, says former Culture Minister Ganka Cvetanova, who reacted on Twitter after Vice Prime Minister Bujar Osmani’s statement on the Law on Languages. No date for negotiations ?! And how there can be when a deputy prime minister in the government...
Macedonia 06.12.19 | 20:30

Venice Commission: Law on Languages is imprecise and will cause collapse of the judiciary

In its opinion adopted on Friday, the Venice Commission has called on the Macedonian authorities to re-examine the Law on the Use of Languages and abandon provisions on bilingualism in judicial proceedings. According to a statement issued after Friday’s meeting in Venice, Council of Europe legal...
Macedonia 04.12.19 | 12:01

Pendarovski: The Law on Languages is not practical, but it will not destroy Macedonia

The Venice Commission has no authority to determine whether a law is in line with our Constitution, only the Constitutional Court has such powers, President Stevo Pendarovski said Tuesday evening on TV24, answering a question on a part of the Commission’s report referring to the Law on the Use...
Macedonia 10.10.19 | 15:51

Ismail: Law on bilingualism is far more damaging than what the Venice Commission has observed

The Levica movement filed a motion against the law on languages to the Constitutional Court eight months ago. They then disputed the way it was adopted, with, as they say, an agreement between the ruling coalition DUI and SDSM, violating all procedures. Now, the Venice Commission’s remarks, according...
Macedonia 09.10.19 | 16:00

Zaev confirmed that they had requested the Venice Commission to postpone the decision on the Languages Law

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev reiterated that the government has requested the Venice Commission’s final opinion on the Law on Use of Languages to be postponed so that they have time to analyze the Commission’s remarks in the draft version and respond to them. In any case, he said, the Commission’s...
Macedonia 08.10.19 | 19:53

TV Alfa: Venice Commission report postponed under government pressure

Macedonian authorities have asked the most important European expert institution to postpone the debate on the opinion on the Macedonian language law, TV Alfa reported. As Alfa reports, according to a preliminary report by the Venice Commission released on Sunday, full implementation of the language...
Macedonia 07.10.19 | 16:44

Mileski: Venice Commission confirms violent and unconstitutional adoption of the Law on Languages

The Venice Commission only repeated what we had been warning about a year ago when the SDS  pushed the law on languages violently, unconstitutionally and out of any constitutional procedure. Nothing new for me, Robert Mileski wrote on Facebook.
Macedonia 06.10.19 | 22:24

Venice Commission assesses that the Law on Languages will jeopardize the functioning of the entire judicial system!

According to the document obtained by Plusinfo, the Venice Commission’s draft opinion is a strong criticism of the Law on Languages and, in some ways, it recommends a detailed study of the reasons behind the 2008 law change and the reasons for the shortcomings in its implementation. On December...
Macedonia 05.09.19 | 10:43

Venice Commission to examine whether there is room for bilingual money and military uniforms

A delegation of the Venice Commission is paying Thursday a visit to Skopje for meetings with MP groups on the requested opinion over the Law on the Use of Languages. Representatives of the Venice Commission Delegation will meet with MPs from DUI, SDSM, VMRO-DPMNE and the independent parliamentary group...

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