The partnership between INJ and CoE continues through the new Action Plan of the Council of Europe for the Republic of Moldova (2025-2028)

On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, the launch of the new Action Plan of the Council of Europe for the Republic of Moldova took place - a strategic programming document for the period 2025-2028 aimed at aligning our country's legislation, institutions and practices with European standards in the fields of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The event was attended by the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, and representatives of diplomatic missions, key institutions in the justice system and civil society.

Present at the launch, the Interim Director of the National Institute of Justice, Ecaterina Popa, had an intervention in the "Rule of Law" panel. Dumneaei highlighted the results of the cooperation between the Institute and the Council of Europe in the last four years, in the segment of judicial training in essential areas: non-discrimination and equality, women's access to justice and the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, migration and asylum, the fight against corruption, combating hate speech, electoral law, etc. Thus, relevant actions were noted, including multiple training sessions, the adaptation to the internal legal order and the institutionalization of the HELP Program e-courses, the organization of study visits to European judicial institutions, the development of modern didactic materials, the implementation of awareness-raising activities on crucial human rights issues.

During the discussions, the importance of the mission of the CoE experts to evaluate the initial and continuous training processes, which provided aspects to be implemented for their optimization, as well as the piloting of the new "European Union Law" module for judges and prosecutors, in response to the recommendations of the 2022 TAIEX mission, was emphasized.

The perspectives opened by the new Action Plan of the Council of Europe for the Republic of Moldova will facilitate the development within the National Institute of Justice of some training programs that meet both the requirements of the community acquis and the concrete needs of the national judicial system in the context of our country's European aspirations.