1 September 2023 - Representatives of the Constitutional Courts and Supreme Courts of the EU Member States, of the Court of Justice of the European Union and of the European Court of Human Rights met in the Hague on 31 August and 1 September to discuss the role of their courts in upholding the fundamental values on which the European Union is founded, such as the rule of law and human rights. At this conference, entitled “EUnited in diversity II: The Rule of Law and Constitutional Diversity”, Vice-President, Dr Snježana Bagić, represented the Croatian Constitutional Court. The conference was opened by Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice of the European Union, and followed by keynote speeches from Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Síofra O'Leary, President of the European Court of Human Rights, and Dineke de Groot, President of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. This gathering was intended as a follow-up to the conference “EUnited in Diversity: between common constitutional traditions and national identities” which took place in Riga, Latvia, in September 2021.
