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Venezuela – Constitutional crisis - Preliminary opinion released

21/07/2017

Strasbourg, Council of Europe – Today the Venice Commission has released its preliminary opinion on the legal aspects of the constitutional crisis in Venezuela.

Text of the opinion

#StandWithUkraine

International conference

“Money and Democracy – an Uneasy Relationship”

07 - 08/12/2023, Cologne, Germany

International seminar

“Constitutions and war”

14 - 15 September 2023
Madrid, Centre for Constitutional and Political Studies (CEPC)

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