Serbia: Council of Europe, few steps in fighting corruption
None of the recommendations of 2015 has been implemented
15 March, 16:00Greco says that Serbia has made "only limited progress towards achieving transparency of the activity of the National Assembly" and that more has to be done to introduce rules for members of parliament on how they interact with lobbyists and other third parties, "given the great risk of undue influence" that they could put on legislative processes.
As for judges and prosecutors Greco reaffirms the necessity to go ahead with the constitutional reform that has to introduce changes in the composition of the High Judicial Council and exclude the National Assembly from the process of recruitment of judges. Greco also asks the authorities to review of the system of appraisal of judges' performance and the criteria for the recruitment and promotion of prosecutors. (ANSA).