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1270/2025 - Lithuania - Urgent Opinion on recent amendments to the Law on the Lithuanian National Radio and Television
Lithuania, Lithuanian National Radio and Television
03/2026
 
1269/2025 - Peru - Opinion on judicial independence and fundamental rights
President of Judiciary, Supreme Court of Peru
XX/2026
 
1268/2025 - Finland - Opinion on the draft amendments to the Constitution of Finland prepared by the Working Group on Constitutional Guarantees for the Independence of the Judiciary
Minister of Justice of Finland
03/2026
 
1267/2025 - Slovak Republic - Joint Opinion on the draft amendments regarding the criminal offence of abuse of law
Minister of Justice of the Slovak Republic
03/2026
 
 
 
 
1263/2025 - Amicus curiae brief for the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Kuijt v. the Netherlands
Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights
12/2025
 
 
 
1260/2025 - Updated Report on Out-of-Country Voting
12/2025
 
 
President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
10/2025
 
1254/2025 - Hungary - Opinion on the Hungarian draft law on "transparency of public life" and other legislative texts relating to "foreign influence"
Parliamentary Assembly, Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States
10/2025
 
Republic of Moldova, President of the Parliament
03/2026
 
 
 
 
1239/2025 - Report on "Foreign Influence" and "Foreign Interference"
tbc
 
1238/2025 - Poland - Joint Opinion of the Venice Commission and the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DGI) of the Council of Europe on the draft law concerning the status of judges appointed or promoted between 2018 and 2025 and other related matters
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Monitoring Committee, President & Poland, Minister of Justice
03/2026
 
 
 
1210/2024 - Rule of Law Checklist: Update
Council of Europe, Venice Commission
12/2025
 
1199/2024 - Checklist on the influence of money on democracy
2024
 
1197/2024 - Report on the status of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in the domestic legal systems of Council of Europe member States
Council of Europe, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, President
10/2025
 
1194/2024 - Report on freedom of expression, prohibition of hate speech and promotion of pluralism in the context of electoral campaigns
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, President
12/2025
 
1175/2024 - Report on Judicial Councils
Venice Commission
 
1174/2024 - Report on Judicial Appointments
Venice Commission
 
1116/2022 - Study on the key principles of democracy in European Union governance
European Parliament, President
 
1072/2021 - Russian Federation - Opinion on amendments to the Federal Law on "the Bar and the Legal Profession in the Russian Federation"
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Monitoring Committee, Chair
 
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