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On 6 May 2016, at the University of Humanities “Ismail Qemali” in Vlora, took place a one day workshop on the topic “Asylum law”. The training was organized by the European Centre and Konrad Adenauer in the framework of the project “European standards on asylum law”. The aim of the training was to contribute to the
- CONTINUOUS TRAINING FOR JUDGES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURTS – EUROPEAN STANDARDS ON ASYLUM
On May 27 2016, the European Centre in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Foundation and closely supported by the School of Magistrates, within their program on continuous training for judges organized the training “European Standards on Asylum”. The training aims to bring closer to the judges and other professionals in law, the European standards, those of
- European Week 2016
The European Centre in the framework of one of its most important institutional objectives has designed and implemented projects on the European integration, which aims to bring closer the European realities and their professional support in the integration process in the EU, organizes the yearly project “European Week 2016”. The activities foreseen in the framework
- 20 SEPTEMBER 1975 – 40 YEARS FROM THE SIGNATURE OF THE EUROPEAN ACT FOR DIRECT ELECTIONS
Over the course of its existence, the European Parliament has transformed itself from an assembly with limited powers to a decision-making body directly shaping EU policies. It has been a long road, but one of the milestones was 20 September 1976, when ministers signed rules allowing direct European elections. The elections, held about three years
- LUSTRATION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT WERE UNFAIR
Principal facts The applicant, Trendafil Ivanovski, is a Macedonian national who was born in 1946 and lives in Skopje. In 2009 Mr Ivanovski – who was then the president of the Constitutional Court – submitted a declaration of non-collaboration with the security services to the Lustration Commission, pursuant to the 2008 Lustration Act, which made
- CONVICTION FOR DEFAMATION OF LAWYER ACTING FOR JUDGE BORREL’S WIDOW WAS DISPROPORTIONATE INTERFERENCE WITH HIS RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Principal facts The applicant, Olivier Morice, is a French national who was born in 1960 and lives in Paris. He is the lawyer acting for Mrs Borrel, the widow of the French judge Bernard Borrel, whose dead body was found, on 19 October 1995, 80 kilometres from the city of Djibouti. In 1997 the French