Alexander Arabadjiev

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Alexander Stoyanov Arabadjiev ( Bulgarian Александър Стоянов Арабаджиев ; born December 18, 1949 in Blagoevgrad ) is a Bulgarian lawyer , judge and politician . He has been a judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) since January 12, 2007 .

Career

Alexander Arabadjiev was born on December 18, 1949 in Blagoevgrad in what was then the People's Republic of Bulgaria and attended an English-language school. He studied at the St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia Law and completed his studies in 1972. 1975 he was a judge at the district court in his hometown Blagoevgrad in 1983 he was a judge at the district court Blagoewgrader. In 1986, Arabadjiev was appointed civil judge at the Bulgarian Supreme Court. From 1991 to 2000, Alexander Arabadjiev was one of the first judges after its establishment at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria , where he completed a full nine-year, non-renewable term as constitutional judge . He was nominated as constitutional judge by the judiciary .

From 1997 until its dissolution in 1998, Alexander Arabadjiev was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights , an organ of the Council of Europe . In 2000 he was also a member of an independent group of experts set up by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to investigate the situation of political prisoners in Armenia and Azerbaijan .

Politically, Arabadjiev was a member of the Bulgarian National Assembly for the coalition for Bulgaria . From 2001 to 2006 he was deputy chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Religious Communities, member of the Committee on European Integration and member of the delegation of the Bulgarian Parliament to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , where he was a member of the Committee on Legal Issues and Human Rights. From 2002 to 2003, Alexander Arabadjiev was also a participant in the European Convention as a delegate from the Bulgarian National Assembly .

On January 12, 2007, after Bulgaria joined the EU on January 1 , 2007, Alexander Arabadjiev was appointed judge at the European Court of Justice on a proposal by the Bulgarian government. For Bulgaria, Arabadjiev also acts as an observer in the European Parliament and its Legal Committee.

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  1. ↑ a b c Curriculum Vitae Alexander Arabadjiev at the Council of the European Union on the occasion of Arabadjiev's nomination as judge at the ECJ, October 31, 2006. ( English )
personal data
SURNAME Arabadjiev, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arabadjiev, Alexander Stoyanov (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian lawyer, judge at the European Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Blagoevgrad