well, now the venice commission said that it renounces participation in the selection of constitutionalthe constitutional court, the ball is in kyiv's court. well, the deputies seem to be in no hurry to change the law, or, according to the good old tradition , they are simply waiting for the green light from the bank, but now we will discuss all this, stepan berko joins us - lawyer, advocacy manager of the stepana de jure foundation. good evening. i congratulate you . how should this whole story be resolved now? you are not a woman who said that she refuses to participate in the selection of judges of the constitutional court and who should now decide the issue. is on the side of the ukrainian government, e.e., amendments should be made to the law on the constitutional court. yesterday , the prime minister even made a public comment, the western media said that consultations are currently being held, we expect such a bill to appear in the near future, i think that its adoption will be the same stop precisely to ukraine, the eu, which will be in the near future, i generally had to hear s

and what other organizations besides the venice commission should delegate their experts ?he ministry of foreign affairs actually has a list. and the strengthening of constitutional institutions, and constitutional justice, in particular, the european union, the osce and other similar organizations, there are actually not many of them. i just want to understand from whom in the near future we should expect comments and, well, the absence of delegates. and is there any reaction to the e-e statement in the venice commission on the part of the ukrainian e-e power of ukrainian politicians , or will they somehow correct the whole story, well actually i already mentioned that allegedly from the fact that i i read in the media that prime minister shmygal stated that the draft law is being prepared, again, we will have to wait to read the text that will be prepared, i have no doubt that there will still be some attempts to find a half-hearted solution, to look for some alleged compromise, in my opinion it's just will complicate the process because the venice commission is very clea

will ukraine fulfill the recommendations of the european and venice commission ?c news with a pass and was left without a job as the head of the department of the patrol police in the lviv region , roman pylypenko was removed from his post for presenting his girlfriend with a permit to travel through the market square, she herself posted a video with a gift on her instagram page and tagged in the post and pylypenko after the video began to spread on the network on the facebook page of the patrol police of ukraine there was a notice about the dismissal of the head of the patrol police department of the lviv region and the appointment of an official investigation public we contacted roman pylypenko for a comment, we have not yet received an answer about lease of the pochaiv lavra with the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, the author anna voytovych claims that the ukrainian orthodox church conducts anti-ukrainian propaganda in every possible way supports the enemy, the term of the lease expires in 2052, is it possible to terminate it early, who sh

candidate for the eu, the parliament passed a law that goes against the recommendations of the venice commissionappened to the judges of the constitutional court who were dismissed before the new year. congratulations, this is judicial control, and i am tetyana shustra. the reform of the constitutional court is on the verge of collapse. the verkhovna rada of ukraine finally adopted the draft law which changes the system of appointing judges of the constitutional court of ukraine, it creates a special by the way, a group of experts that will check all candidates for the position and the adopted law goes against the requirements of the european union, which ukraine promised to fulfill by receiving the status of a candidate country for the eu, what next and whether we will continue the path of european integration, we will tell you in today's program, but first, to the news, the 19th congress of judges of ukraine elected five members of the supreme council justice of the key body of the judicial system, which is responsible for the professionalism, impartiality and integrity of this judicial corps,

even though again, from the 1st hand, you would say the venice commission, not having any real power. but the influence from the venice commission is maybe bigger than a big institution with a lot of money. because was it advise on how to reform electoral laws in constitution? the commission is a comp, as for democracy, guiding us and member states from no less than 5 continents, all around the world. ladies and gentlemen, we could go on and on and you know it better than me about the haydn, but so powerful tool of this council of europe. and it's up to us whether we use them or whether we lease them aside. it's our responsibility. we are the politicians of our times when human lives i endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. that is how our leave is to put it, reminding us to be watchful whenever human rights are violated. to us in this plenary hold, these words might seem beautiful and inspirational. but to the boys and the girls in hearken to the 16 year old who came back from italy to her home to her destroyed home. becau

candidate for the position of judge of the constitutional court, which was criticized by the venice commission , may take place even before the ukraine eu summit he said this in an interview with a politician and stated that the government is ready to review the recently adopted legislation on the constitutional court of ukraine, so to speak, to take into account the requirements of both the european commission and the venice commission . was supposed to deal with the constitutional court and its high-quality filling by judges. well, we will keep an eye on it in the future. kherson, the head of the humanitarian project, kherson hub, p. romana, we congratulate you glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, i congratulate you on another massive attack on kherson and its surroundings yesterday, three people were killed, eight were wounded , and the regional clinical hospital was also shelled, but no less, our military, in particular yevhen erin, the spokesman for the tauriy defense forces, notes that it seems that the russians do not consider the kherson region as a potential direction for the develo

so, the european service for foreign affairs wrote about the fact that the venice commission recommendshat the exclusion of candidates to the ksu can also be carried out on the basis of professional competence , that is, those who will be candidates for the positions of judges of the constitutional court but the most important thing here is that the number of members of the preferred group of experts who actually have to control these people on the road to this red toga should be increased to seven, while the seventh the member was from the quota of international donors, this is important, not from yes, please explain and whether the authorities will fulfill these wishes , please yes, in fact, at the end of last year, it was voted by the verkhovna rada and quickly passed by the president, e-e law, which e-e pluer formation of the constitutional court, it is precisely the work of experts that was asked about, and this signed law provides for the creation of such a group consisting of six people, three of whom are appointed by the ukrainian authorities, let's say, and three by the interna

verkhovna rada. of the president and the congress of judges of ukraine, one person from the venice commissionwo persons delegated by international organizations that provide assistance to ukraine in reforms of the rule of law, the group must analyze each candidate for compliance with the criteria of integrity and professional competence, and this should supposedly allow appointing worthy ones, but there is an essential point the selection scheme does not provide for any participation of representatives of civil society, instead , representatives of the authorities continue to participate in the selection of judges. three of the six members of the commission are representatives of politics and the congress of judges, and the decision is taken by the majority, the votes of international experts are not considered as a priority. therefore, the threat of political involvement does not disappear, and only those who agree with the government will actually be able to become judges of the constitutional court of ukraine, emphasizes the head of the de jure foundation mykhailo zhernakov, this means tha

the same european solidarity, right in the hall they said that the venice commission will return to you, and the law is not enough that this law voted, zelensky signed it, well , on the eve of the flight to washington, well, and accordingly, the boomerang went and flew back , and the venice commission, uh, simply criticized this law. well, what was the point of doing and adopting a law that is absolutely unacceptable for our european perspective, but they took it and sold it? well, we heard that so to speak , walkie-talkies on the part of the representatives of the ruling party, in particular, they explained that then the control on the part of the ukrainian state is lost for the time being, because the number will cross, so to speak, the critical limit. well, and four foreign er, er, those responsible well, that would be too much, that is, from such er, professional public organizations, because the government actually has an influence on, well, on the higher qualification commission of judges and on all these judicial structures the essence well, all the more so since the constitution

use the norm on the imperative mandate for this, which did not have very good reviews of the venice commissionrinciple, i am not a very democratic norm, which, unfortunately, was dragged into the ukrainian parliament, let's take it one by one. first of all, i have the impression that the topic of the opz and pro-russian forces in general is discussed, that is, it is very popular among the voters of the banned bz, it is very popular the thesis of taking away mandates, and that is why it has turned into such a format of the pr genre . for the last six months, we always talk about it, we mention it. on some, i impose sanctions, on the second, they take away, on others, mandates are taken away etc. but uh, we need to solve a systemic, fundamental issue, we need to say goodbye once and for all to the russian rule in ukrainian political life, and that is why i would very much not like the issue to be reduced only to medvedchuk, there to cossack, to derkach. so this is pro-russian nonsense, so they need to be judged it is a pity that they are not in ukraine, they are not under investigation, they are

we wanted to talk about the fact that the venice commission officially refused the appointment of members to the advisory group of experts, which should participate in the selection of judges of the constitutional court, and until ukraine implements these recommendations of the venice commission, they will not delegate their experts to this one, this is a very important topic, it concerns judicial reform. and judicial reform, i will remind you, is one of the requirements for ukraine on its way to the european union, we will definitely return to this topic on monday and discuss it in more detail directly with experts . well, in the meantime, i urge you to subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda on the internet are social networks instagram telegram facebook viber and also two channels on youtube radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine svoboda life will return to the air on monday, art in a country of war, a series of documentaries , each of which will tell about one of the ukrainian artists, artists who did not go abroad and continue their creative path. in ukraine, i have the impression t

we received remarks from the european commission we received a negative assessment from the venice commissionl close our way to the european community this must be changed very quickly we from european solidarity immediately submitted a bill, we hope that at the next session of the ukrainian parliament the session hall will correct it and the monomajority and the speaker of the parliament will not slow down this therefore, in this context, the process of the formation of the supreme council of justice no, it is really very, very important well, all these events are of course being watched closely in the european union and for sure well no, they are definitely watching the election eh for a few days it will last so you still have the council of justice gather and if suddenly not very good people end up there, they will notice it in the european union, will any of their wishes be taken into account? will this turn them away from ukraine again , and then when the question arises, well , god willing, the war will be over and settled the issue of ukraine's accession to the european union, they wil

candidate for the eu, the parliament passed a law that contradicts the recommendations of the venice commissiont happened to the judges of the constitutional court who were dismissed before the new year, see thursday 12 january at 4:40 p.m. the program under judicial control with tetyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel. i am iryna koval, mother, wife, presenter of the espresso tv channel. and i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is to help the armed forces of ukraine and i i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this, the war found me at home in irpen, the alarming suitcase was packed, but that did not reduce the excitement, explosions every minute, the gostomel airfield is on fire, russian fighters. in my window is a cold basement, then an exit under shelling from irpen, a month of abandonment by my relatives , and eventually i ended up in lviv. i returned to the airwaves and started volunteering together with my colleagues. helping our military is now an integral part of life. to the defend

the implementation of this mountain of the law, because the two main recommendations of the venice commission of the commission, that there should be a seventh member independent of international experts, and about the binding nature of its decisions, have not been implemented. therefore, unfortunately, it has now turned out that the ukrainian government has spent time and put a lot of ukraine's reputation on the line in order to pretend that nothing is happening and to actually ignore the demands of the european union, now there will simply be no other way out than to change the law. it is a shame that we once again understood this due to the fact that we are at the highest level of the eu or the russian commission i had to write in black and white that your law that you adopted does not correspond to one or the other, well, it is very short, that is, there is still hope that there will be changes here in ukraine , e. selection of judges of the constitutional court of ukraine well, if ukraine wants let's say this, if the ukrainian authorities want us to have european integration and the refo

candidate for the eu, the parliament passed a law that contradicts the recommendations of the venice commission and what it was noted that the judges of the constitutional court were dismissed before the new year. on thursday , january 12 at 4:40 p.m., watch the judicial control program with tetyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel . andriy yanitsky keeps the economy under surveillance . yes, we are talking about economic news on the espresso channel, but it is not about dry numbers and clear terms . it's about the economy, it's about the ability to analyze, forecast and get a profit , about what the exchange rates of salaries and pensions will be, and how product prices will change, information about everything that affects our a wallet, and informed means armed , see the economy news project with andrii yanitskyi, everyday life at eight in the morning for espresso, the war raised its head again in europe, reminding us of the darkest hours of our history, franz 24 constantly covers events in ukraine, our team on the ground and in the studio will inform you about the dynamics of events this

and that is precisely why the venice commission in its to the updated conclusion that she published inecember last year, she drew attention to the fact that it is necessary to add one more independent member to the composition of this commission, where it can be as a representative of international experts or someone from civil society yesterday evening the european commission expressed and published its official statement where it congratulated on the one hand the formation of the high council of justice and on the other hand drew attention to the fact that it is necessary to make changes to the law on the constitutional court. i hope that the ukrainian authorities will accept this signal and in the near future in time we will see changes to this law, let's hope eh mr. stepanu stepan berko employee lawyer induction manager of the de jure foundation was in touch with us thank you for this conversation, well, now we are adding yevgenia kravchuk, people's deputy of ukraine, mrs. yevgenia , to our ether. they have a relationship with the opzj, but yesterday, well , since we do not have th

administrative court of kyiv, the parliament passed a law that contradicts the recommendations of the venice commission to the council of europe's advisory body on constitutional law and the advice of ambassadors countries of the big seven, this is no reform, no, this is not european integration, this is under the guise of reform in dependence on the constitutional court and a direct path to authoritarianism, a concert in the center and analysts conducted an analysis of ukraine's implementation of the judicial reform, which is a key requirement for us to be admitted to the european union according to the conclusions of experts from the summer. the reform of the constitutional court is not the only one of the eu criteria where ukraine has shown positive dynamics, however, the parliament, by adopting a draft law that contradicts the requirements of international partners, once again rolled ukraine back to on the way to the eu, a number of public organizations appealed to president volodymyr zelenskyi with a call to promise the law and send it for finalization in the judicial reform will not be disrupted

december 20, we will remind you, but there are a lot of reservations , in particular, from the venice commissionthis issue, we are currently receiving the constitutional court. what is the risk that it could be a completely politicized body? how do you think we can get out of this situation, how can we fix it at the legislative level, and is it still difficult to reach out to the people's deputies from the public's side and their understanding that it is necessary to do it ? the way out here is quite simple, we need changes to the law , e.e., a constitutional procedure. let’s say this about the selection of judges of the constitutional court, which will take into account the recommendation of this venetian commission, and these recommendations, to put it simply, boil down to the fact that in the commission, which will to pre-selection of candidates in the ksu was for 6 and 7 people, of them 4 representatives there with the help of various international organizations, yes, to whom i trust, who have great authority there, and three representatives of the authorities, so that there would be no grad

non-politicization of the relevant important state institutions , we have a repeated opinion of the venice commissionobviously have to correct the decision that has already been made . when do you think we will be able to do this , and is work on this already underway, i know exactly what was the discussion about this remark eh and it will be included in the work of the profile committee will there be consultations and discussions, will we see each other on the mountain, er, i have no confidence in what was voted at one time there in december in the verkhovna rada . received it later and so and so and so one story tried so and so that means consultations are being conducted, but at the moment i am sure that it has been brought out, it will be brought up permanently, the hall for voting and for changes according to these comments , mr. oleksandr, what to do with the shortcomings , cooperate, first of all, we see that now there is a very strong political will to do everything possible, and on the part of the parliament, first of all, to throw away your demands, now look at what are necessary for the ea

candidate for the eu, the parliament passed a law that goes against the recommendations of the venice commissionnd what happened to the judges of the constitutional court who were dismissed before the new year, see on thursday , january 12, at 4:40 p.m., the judicial control program with tetyana shustrova the espresso tv channel is hosting an informational and analytical marathon on the espresso tv channel, we are attracting the best experts to interpret the most important events, we are working together with khrystyna yatskiv borkovskiy well, yesterday was an extraordinary event took place in ukraine, in lviv, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, and the president of poland, andrzej duda, met. well, the president of lithuania, and the president of lithuania, met. after this meeting , an important moment took place. but also calls on all nato partners and all partners in the european union to do so, and not only we will talk with igor popov, an expert of the ukrainian institute, the future president of the igor politician analytical center congratulations glory to ukraine glory to the

competition commission, according to the mass of cash, there are active consultations with the eu, the venice commission with i would like to remind the ukrainian government that the cabinet of ministers announced changes to this law, and prime minister mygal hopes for ukraine 's accession to the eu in two years. to the european , but it is good when the country sets ambitious goals and deadlines for itself, the prosecutor's office lost an appeal against the arrest of the mayor of poltava , oleksandr mamai, earlier, the kyiv district court of the city refused to take the mayor into custody are suspected of disseminating information about the formation of a military unit in the region with the address of the headquarters, the prosecutor's office appealed the decision today, during a closed session , the court refused to satisfy the appeal of vitak oleksandr mamai. the court seized uah 32 million under sanctions from a russian oligarch, it is about the largest producer of metallurgical alumina and aluminum hydroxide in ukraine, the funds were for to the deposit account of the state customs service, it was

legislation into european standards, it is on the implementation of the recommendation of the venice commissionich stipulates that candidates for the position of judge of the constitutional court of ukraine must pass the assessment of the public integrity council. the day of its judges is absolutely not, in my opinion, very correct in not completing the competition that was started under the old law and will actually be fully complied with the procedure provided for by the new law and on the position of judges of the constitutional court and the closing of the verkhovna rada, since now, after the resignation of a package of three judges, there are already vacancies from the verkhovna rada, and the congress of judges will be held in compliance with this transparent procedure and the task of international experts who will provide conclusions about the integrity of the professional and high professional qualities of this or that candidate. thank you mr. fedorov, we are adding to our marathon andriy osadchuk, people's deputy of ukraine, first deputy chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on of la

member to the competition commission, according to masikasa, the eu is actively consulting the venice commission with the ukrainian government. i will remind you that the cabinet of ministers announced changes to this law, and prime minister shmygal hopes for ukraine's accession to the eu in two years. no one can name the exact date of ukraine's accession to the eu . the speed of this process always mostly depends on candidate countries how quickly it adapts its legislation to european but it is good when a country sets ambitious goals and deadlines for itself bright hope on the walls italian artist tvboy created colorful murals on buildings in there are still many things in the city that remind us of the occupation by the russian army in the spring of 2022, in particular the destroyed walls of houses with broken windows and even burnt heavy equipment, but some of these objects now have bright paintings that create hope for the reconstruction and prosperity of ukraine after the victory, local residents speak art in these conditions, it does not allow us to forget that the war is going on. on the

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constitutional e-e court the european commission fully agrees with the recommendations of the venice commission regarding the law numbered 76-62 e-e on constitutional judges expects that ukraine will accordingly conduct its selection process of judges of this particular court what are your forecasts regarding this? thank you, you know how to make forecasts, it is generally a thankless business and, in principle, regarding the constitutional court, i am honestly not the most knowledgeable person with whom you can talk about this, so i can express an opinion exclusively as a citizen as a person who observes the relevant processes from the side. currently, the procedure for selecting members of the competition commission is starting, which must then hold a competition among candidates in the court of the constitutional court. i am convinced that the top political leadership understands the principles of on which such a selection should be based and accordingly understands how the legislation should look in order for the competition to look like from the side of an outside observer from the side of

point -1, our plus one expert, please eh well, yes, indeed, eh, the venice commission, and just likes, they now very darkly and clearly say that no requirement, by the way, has not been fulfilled because it has seven there should be experts instead of six as voted by ours parliamentarians here are actually usually er europeans, they so er more easily talk about what er with, especially now when we are at war, they er not that they very aggressively criticize our actions, the actions of our authorities and in general turn more as for the recommendations, they say that these are their requirements, but here in this matter, they have already several times clearly stated in black and white that there should be a seventh expert, and at the same time, our parliamentarians continue to pretend that this was the case and talk about that no, we fulfilled the requirement of the european union, but no, we have not fulfilled it, and that is why there must be changes to the legislation, and in no case do i think that our government will be able to avoid it, because we all understand and society un

sorry, it’s not to nato, it’s more likely to the venice commission. how is he there?ready gone . by the way, i’m wondering if anyone has an oscar - one of those who have the right to submit their own submission to the constitutional to the court or will i challenge this law in the constitutional court, well, again, it is difficult to say how the constitutional court will work in conditions of war, but uh, well, here you don't even need to be a professional lawyer to simply read two articles of the constitution and this law simply to see that this is absolutely clear, one thing contradicts another, the only thing i can sum up for sure is that we will definitely return to this topic . i can see from the reactions of our viewers who are watching that i have many questions for this draft law and for the people who adopted it , at least according to the draft law already the law is already legal, so to the people who passed it and listen to their motivation, thank you very much evgeny dyky, how about commanding the aidar battalion, we talked about the law that provides for

constitutional court, and the european commission directly says that the recommendations of the venice commissionh were not implemented during the vote for this law, must be implemented, it is obvious that people think that it is possible to become a member of the european union without doing any european sciences. now is a very good time for us. europeans support and want us to become members of the european union, which everyone does. but we should not test their patience even under this we have a desire to support trying to push authoritarian tendencies in the regulation of the media into the european union. we have literally one and a half minutes. i will ask a very short question because today people are writing about it in social networks, people are interested and indignant , and who? goes to the representative of the servant of the people, the people's deputy from baku. is this a scandal or is it treason? explain what it is. please explain to you more clearly, this is a representative of the faction trust. it is obvious that this is not the fault of a baku native. it is the fact that the

ukraine soon - that's when we will talk to him live well, following the judicial reform in venice, the commission refused to participate in the selection of judges of the constitutional court ukraine is demanding from kyiv to change the law on the selection of judges, which was signed by president zelensky just a month ago, despite the warning of anti-corruption experts . read more about it in svoboda life. russia exaggerates its successes near orichov in zaporizhzhia and ugledar in donbas , the ministry of defense of great britain reports this with reference to data of its intelligence during the last week , the russian so-called military personnel reported on the kremlin media about the breakthrough of the line of defense of the armed forces of ukraine near horikhov in the zaporizhzhia region and the successful capture of the outskirts of a coal mine in donetsk region, on wednesday one of the military russian telegram channels even reported that the eastern part of the city is completely controlled by russian marines, and within two hours the author of the article clarified that it was a mistak