Vaccines are not a magical means of healing, yet surely they represent, in addition to other treatments that need to be developed, the most reasonable solution for the prevention of the disease. At the same time, we have realized that in those places where an effective vaccination campaign has taken place, the risk of severe repercussions of the disease has decreased.

If the petitioner empowers a legal representative, an attorney-at-law (law office, lawyer of the European Communities), a representative of a human rights non-governmental organisation who passed the bar exam, and legal counsels of legal entities and of other economic organisations shall be entitled to act as legal representatives at the Constitutional Court.

The 58th Munich Security Conference (MSC) was held from February 18 to 20, 2022, at its usual venue in Munich, the Hotel Bayerischer Hof. Participants in the forthcoming 58th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) will discuss the findings of a 180-page report titled “Turning the Tide – Unlearning Helplessness,” which warns of a mounting feeling of “helplessness” in many societies of the world in the face of a growing number of crises and conflicts

The Venice Commission adopts opinions, amicus curiae briefs, studies and guidelines in the field of the protection of fundamental rights, including in particular, freedom of association, prohibition of discrimination, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of conscience and religion.

After examining the historical origins of the concepts of Rule of Law, Rechtsstaat and Etat de droit, the report looked at these concepts in positive law. In international law, they appear in a number of treaties but also in soft law; in national law, they appear as a main feature of the state in the constitutions of Germany as well as of a number of former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The notion of the Rule of Law is however often difficult to apprehend in former socialist countries, which were influenced by the notion of socialist legality.

constitutional proceedings – procedure of consideration of cases by the Constitutional Court, making judgments and decisions upon them as well as performance of procedural actions by judges of the Constitutional Court and participants of constitutional proceedings aiming at the realisation of their procedural rights and execution of their procedural obligations defined by this Law and other legislative acts;

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