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Nicosia, Cyprus – May 30, 2025 – A pivotal amendment to the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus, specifically concerning the right to vote, has been officially published. Article 63 of the Constitution, which pertains to the right to elect, has been revised by virtue of "The Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution Law of 2025", published in the Official Gazette of the Republic on May 30, 2025. The amended Article 63 now reads as follows: "Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of this Article, every citizen of the Republic who has completed their seventeenth year of age and possesses the residency qualifications prescribed by the electoral law shall be entitled to be registered as an elector either in the Greek or in the Turkish electoral roll. However, members of the Greek community shall be registered only in the Greek electoral roll, and members of the Turkish community only in the Turkish electoral roll. No one shall be entitled to be registered as a...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) brought additional charges today against 16 suspects – including 13 public officials - relating to the execution of contracts for restoring remote traffic control and signalling systems on the Greek rail network, co-funded by the EU.  Nine of these suspects had already been charged for other crimes in the sameinvestigation, and an additional seven new suspects were charged now. The EPPO investigation focuses on the contracts for restoring remote traffic control and signalling systems on the Greek rail network signed between ERGOSE – a subsidiary of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE), responsible for the management of the contracts – and the Consortium Contractor, formed by two companies, responsible for the execution of the project.  One of the companies undertook to carry out the northern section of the project, while the second company undertook to carry out the project on the major part of the Athen...

The European Commission decided to refer Bulgaria to the Court of Justice of the European Union for incorrectly transposing rules on the right to a lawyer, while it called on Poland to correctly transpose EU rules on the right of access to a lawyer. The European Commission decided to refer Bulgaria (INFR(2024)2003) to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to correctly transpose into its national legislation the Directive on the right of access to a lawyer and to communicate upon arrest ( Directive 2013/48/EU ). This case concerned the notification of transposing measures and the completeness of the transposition that has to be addressed at a first stage of the monitoring by the Commission. Further issues were identified regarding the correctness of the transposition. In this respect, the Commission concluded that Bulgaria has incorrectly transposed the scope of the rights under the Directive. In addition, Bulgaria has incorrectly transposed measu...