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Three Bulgarian candidates for Euro magistrates urgenly needed

Крум Зарков
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We are still looking for three candidates for a judge in the European Court of Human Rights, interim Justice Minister Krum Zarkov said. Bulgaria does not propose the judge directly, he noted. It is to nominate three candidates from which the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will choose the next Bulgarian judge. 

On 3 April, a meeting of the Commission for the Selection of Candidates for the European Court of Human Rights was held at the Ministry of Justice. After hearing six candidates, none of them was approve



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