Moldova, CoE sign new 13.7 mln euro anti-graft, human rights action plan EU-Moldova
CHISINAU (Moldova), April 20 (SeeNews) - The Council of Europe (CoE) said it signed a 13.7 million euro ($16.45 million) four-year action and cooperation plan with Moldova in order to assist the country in carrying out legislative and institutional reforms in the fields of human rights, rule of law and democracy.
The 2021–2024 plan action plan will support Moldova to fulfil its obligations as a Council of Europe member state, CoE said in a press release on Monday.
The beneficiaries of the cooperation programmes within the plan will be state institutions, civil society and the public at large, as the Council aims to reinforce ownership by national stakeholders and to ensure sustainability of outcomes through a multi-institutional approach . This will allow it to target governmental stakeholders, independent governance institutions, local and regional authorities, and civil soci
Justice Minister Calls for Strengthening CoE
Justice Minister Judit Varga on Monday called for strengthening the role of the Council of Europe (CoE), saying that the European Union “should not be allowed to overshadow” the organisation’s mandate.
Addressing a meeting of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Varga noted that Hungary will take over the rotating six-month presidency of the CoE’s Committee of Ministers later this month.
The minister said the principle that the council’s member states should be united in their values and ideas was just as valid today as it had been at the time of the founding of the organisation 70 years ago. However, diversity and national sovereignty are equally important, Varga said, arguing that the council’s member states differed in their legal, cultural and historical traditions.
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Established in 2018 with the support of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union, the External Oversight Mechanism (EOM) is supporting and protecting victims of human rights violations perpetrated by persons with police authority or prison police, by providing an effective investigation into all such allegations.
Two years after its establishment, twenty national stakeholders and beneficiaries met and discussed the main achievements and practical challenges of the functioning of the EOM, at an online Roundtable on 28 April 2021. Heads of EOM units at the Public Prosecutor’s office (PPO) and Ombudsman’s office, representatives of civil society organisation (CSOs) which are part of the mechanism, as well as the Ministry of Interior (Department for Internal Control, Criminal Investigations and Professional S
Hungarian-Swedish cooperation has been especially successful in the economy and defence sectors, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday, after talks with his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde.
Szijjártó told a subsequent press conference that trade between the two states surpassed 2 billion euros last year, and is showing a 32 percent growth in 2021. The 225 Swedish companies operating in Hungary employ some 15,000 people, and invest more and more into research and development, he added.
During the coronavirus pandemic, five Swedish companies invested some 7 billion forints (EUR 19.2m) and preserved 4,300 jobs in Hungary, while participating in the government’s economy protection action plan, Szijjártó said.