Vitaly Saenko00:22, 18.08.232 minutes.13
This is one of a number of necessary steps to open negotiations with the European Union on Ukraine’s accession.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed an important European integration law on the selection of judges of the Constitutional Court.
The head of state stated this in an evening address to the Ukrainians. This law was provided for in the recommendations of the European Commission regarding the start of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.
“I have just signed one of the key laws that Ukraine needs to open negotiations with the European Union on the accession of our state.
The opening of negotiations is already this year. A law guaranteeing a transparent, professional and honest selection of judges of the Constitutional Court. Our state is one step closer to joining the European Union,” Zelensky said.
(C)UNIAN 2023
Looks like Ukraine is pulling ahead of Germany, where the seats of the Constutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) aren’t appointed in an especially “transparent, professional and honest” manner. Candidates are selected in an intransparent backroom process, there’s hardly any public scrutiny of them, they don’t necessarily need to have experience as a judge, and the voting in parliament (Bundestag) is determined by shady deals between the parties. As a consequence, the current President of the Bundesverfassungsgericht is a former lawyer of corporate law and ex-member of parliament (what about “seperation of powers”?), who never before had served as a judge. Well, at least he has rather mainstream views and ain’t a radical, like some US Supreme Court judges. Still, good for Ukraine to not copy this rather dubious system!
There are even more things that Ukraine should never copy from the Germans. Like giving a gynecologist the post of minister of defense … and so on.