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Case follows a pattern set by previous trials of opposition figures and their legal advisers.
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Since 2008 Lithuanian political and administrative elites are engaged in debates over reforming the civil service of Lithuania. The result of these debates is the proposed new edition of the Law on Civil Service which was submit ted for parliamentary approval in 2015. The bill envisages a fundamental review of many practices in the civil service on Lithuania. One of those is the shift in focus from stressing formal education to stressing competence evaluation in the process of civil servants selection, t raining and career. However, in most respects Lithuanian public administration remains firmly in the grips of the continental legal tradition and this means that large proportion of the civil service corps is made up of specialists with legal education. There are no reasons to assume that this would be changing, and therefore a need for a large number of lawyers in the civil service will remain. In parallel, the Lithuanian legal education is strictly regulated, primarily to cater to the need of the Judiciar y branch of the gover nment. And thus the changing nat ure of employment requirements in the Executive creates a divergence of labour market needs with regard to legal qualif ications. And this consequently poses a series of challenges to higher education institutions t raining lawyers. In this ar ticle we concept ualize the challenges that are emerging in the context of the moder nization of the Civil Service of Lithuania.
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The company also bought Rosneft shares from Putin intimate Sergei Roldugin, Panama Papers documents show.
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Parliamentarians say new legislation is aimed at suspected terrorists, but critics say it could be used against enemies of the Kremlin.
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U.S. intelligence source says the Sinai air disaster did not result from missile strike.
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Hunter Biden sits on board of a gas firm owned by an ‘example of Yanukovych-era excess.’
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Fresh murder charge comes after Mikhail Khodorkovsky allegedly called for violent overthrow of authorities under President Putin.
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Brussels takes legal action against Croatia for not registering migrants, Hungary in cross-hairs over asylum laws.
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In debates on American immigration law, it is possible to encounter the argument that there were no laws restricting newcomers’ flow into America till the end of the 19th century. An inaccurate understanding of American immigration policy sometimes leads to the opinion that prior to the beginning of the federal immigration power, there was no immigration policy at all in America. This article describes regulations enacted by the colonies and the states, as well as activities taken by them, to control the influx of newcomers. They tried to encourage immigrants to come to America while simultaneously controlling who was coming. The idea of successful control over immigrants coming to the North American continent was rooted in restrictive laws determining who was admissible. Paupers, criminals and those with contagious diseases were undesirable. Colonial and state authorities tried to stop their influx or, at least, to lessen the danger they posed. The main goal of the presented article is to analyze and present arguments proving or neglecting the assumption that there was a lack of an immigration policy during colonial times in America.
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Around the Bloc: Baku Scores Glitz Points for Inaugural F1 Race
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Every questioning of a witness by a prosecutor is of a legal and formal nature. Its aim is to determine “what really happened”. A historian, if interested not only in reconstruction of the course of events, strives to get to know the world of the witness he or she is interviewing. These aims determine the methods, but do not exclude learning from each other’s experience, as well as results of investigations, inquiries and research. The same person can be the subject of interest for a narrative; a prosecutor and a historian can complement each other in their findings. This article represents a contribution to the discussion on the differences in methodology in the work of historians and prosecutors, as well as the importance of interviews with witnesses for the research on contemporary history.
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An analysis of experience. The article presents the results of a research conducted by the Bureau of Research of the Chancellery of the Sejm on the first experiences with participatory budgeting in selected local government units in Poland, which is one of the newest initiatives undertaken within a broader concept of public governance. The authors also assess the current state and perspectives for participatory budgeting.
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Vlad Filat says he’s being made a scapegoat for the “theft of the century” bank fraud scandal.
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The Serbian government steps up its efforts to secure its borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia against migrants and smugglers.
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The number of invalid votes cast in Poland seems to be relatively high, when compared to other democratic countries. The phenomenon is pre-eminently noticeable in the case of local government elections. During these kind of elections being held in 2014, more than 1.7 million of invalid votes were introduced during voting to elect regional assemblies (which represents over 12% of all votes) and over 840,000 (approx. 8.2%) of election results to the voivodeship regional councils (pol. sejmiki). This brought in question the issues concerning reasons for this phenomenon, its dynamics and traceable patterns. The objective of this article is the analysis of territorial distribution of invalid votes during parliamentary elections and local government elections being performed in the form of proportional representation voting system in the years 2001–2014. The research problem is the issue of likelihood to obtain attainable identification of regions in which the scale of invalid votes cast in the subsequent parliamentary elections will significantly differ from the national percentage of invalid votes. Answering the question on how great the differences are? And whether the voivodeships, in which the given scale of these variations is the highest, are the same voivodeships that during local government elections in 2004 have also recorded the greatest deviation? Indubitable answer to this crucial question would unflinchingly lend credence to the thesis that the local government election outcomes were not adulterated.
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The paper refers to the ongoing discussion on the shape, forms, and methods of public administration activity. It deals with issues related to the place held by the right to good administration in the law system of the EU. The author has presented its creation process, which is inseparably connected with an evolution, which the member-states have undergone in their approach to the fundamental rights. The paper has shown the material and personal right to good administration based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour. The summary has stressed the procedural character of the right, covering direct relations between an administrative agency and an individual.
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