Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine A.Stryzhak met Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine H. E. Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine does not adopt decisions dictated by specific political situation. Such statement was made by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Andrii Stryzhak during the meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Ukraine Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth. А. Stryzhak informed the guest that during the year the Constitutional Court has considered over 70 cases, including those of extreme importance for Ukrainian society such as the case on the 2008 State Budget, on the status of a national deputy of Ukraine, on adoption of the Constitution at a referendum. “We do not have any simple cases,” the Chairman emphasised.
He said that the most important case for the society among the cases currently considered by the Constitutional Court is the case on the coalition of deputy factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. It did not lose its relevance after the recent developments in the parliament. A. Stryzhak also said that the Constitutional Court examines the cases not from a political but from a legal point of view. Its decision will be used by the Ukrainian parliament to regulate its activities after the current events.
H.-J. Heimsoeth was also interested to learn about the prospects for introduction of the constitutional compliant mechanism in Ukraine because this tool is applied in nearly all European states. The constitutional compliant in Ukraine, according to him, has not been introduced at a legislative level so far but the need to introduce it at the present stage is currently widely discussed in the society.
During the meeting the parties also discussed the need to develop cooperation between the representatives of the constitutional courts of both states that already has certain traditions. Andrii Stryzhak personally invited H.-J. Heimsoeth to attend activities planned within the framework of the visit of the delegation of Federal Constitutional Court of Germany headed by the Court’s President Hans-Jürgen Papier to Ukraine that will take place at the end of September.
