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Venice Commission: no provisions of the Istanbul Convention can be considered contradictory to the Constitution of Armenia
11 October 2019
Venice, Italy
In an opinion adopted on 11 October, the Council of Europe’s constitutional law body, the Venice Commission, concluded that, while the ratification of any treaty is a sovereign act of the state, and it belongs to the Constitutional Court of Armenia to rule on the compatibility of the Council of...
Venice Commission: the dissolution of parliament in the Republic of Moldova did not meet the required conditions
21 - 22 June 2019
Venice
At its 2019 June plenary session, the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) adopted an opinion on the recent situation in the Republic of Moldova from a constitutional point of view, including on the conditions for the dissolution of parliament. The Venice Commission...