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CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIESthe existence of democratic institutionsand procedures is not suf cient safeguard against the usurpation of power. The second article is about how generating a thorough and trusted status of information is a priority for effective and coordinated disaster management and relief measures delivered by GOs and NGOs in the surroundingsof a critical event. The QuOIMA-project, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, focuses on the various possibilities to use publicly available, open source data generated in the sphereof traditional and social media. The third article is a study of the constitutional and statutory law-provisions as well as the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, one of the youngest Constitutional Courts in Europe, which re ects the standards of most such modern institutions. The purpose of the fourth article is to introduce the long constitutional solution- seeking period of Turkey by referring to historical, legal and political developments, and to evaluate the constitution-making process after the parliamentary elections in 2011. The fth article, coming from Slovakia, argues that the addressees of legal norms have a legitimate right to expect that any restrictions on their fundamental rights through the legislation are the result of broad discourse in which all of the participantshad been given the opportunity tofamiliarize themselves with the matter under consideration and to present their informed opinion. In the sixth article, the author explains the theory of the fundamental rights in the Republic of Latvia, the content and basic rules of locus standi to be observedin order to submit to the Constitutional Courta special type of petition - the constitutional complaint. The author attributes particular importance to the decisions with ex tunc effect proving that these allow considering the constitutional complaint as a real weapon against the state and unconstitutional laws. The seventh article aims to highlight political and legal issues and media campaigns relevant to the referendum on the so-called traditional family held in Slovakia in 2015, which was deemed invalid because of insuf cient turnout. The penultimate article is a broad comparative analysis in the eld of rule of law that draws on a wide arrayof case law from various Central, East and Southeast European Constitutional Courts. The nal article deals with the problem of implementation of the principle of long-term budget revenues planning in the Republic of Lithuania. It analyzes the legal de nition and the essence of short-term and long- term budget revenues planning and the reasons for transition to long-term revenues planning. Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Ukraineare amongthe countries represented in the second issue of the Central and Eastern European Legal Studies of the year 2015.Central and Eastern European Legal Studies, 2/2015ACTIVITY REPORT 2016 141