pixabay Bulgaria has come as a surprise for the European Commission for Democracy through Law (aka Venice Commission). The Venice Commission announced this at today's monitoring group meeting in the European Parliament, Radio Horizont learnt from its sources. The Monitoring Group on Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in the European Parliament discusses the situation in Bulgaria for the second time. The meeting is held online. Today, the representative of the Venice Commission has stated that such a figure is not part of world practice and described the decision to create it as "strange".