The Modern Challenges of European Constitutional Systems

From March 9-10 2019 at the Palace and Park Complex in Gułtowa near Kostrzyna, Greater Poland, a Poland-Wide Scientific Conference entitled “The Modern Challenges of European Constitutional Systems” took place. It was organized by the Institute of Constitutional Law in the Department of Law and Administration at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, as well as the Science Club of Constitutional Law "Pro Publico Bono", under the honorable patronage of the International Institute of Civil Society.

A panel of experts was held as part of the conference, and it was entitled “The Advantages and Disadvantages of European Constitutional Systems”. Professor Hanna Suchocka (Prime Minister of Poland from 1992 to 1993), Professor Sławomir Wronkowska (judge in the Constitutional Tribunal) and Professor Andrzej Mączyński (Vice-President of the Constitutional Tribunal from 2001 to 2016) took part in it.

During the remaining discussion panels, speakers gave their presentations associated with the subject of European regimes and the challenges and threats that lay ahead of them, and carried out discourses related to current problems of constitutional law in Europe. The discussion concerned the condition of democracy, the relation between law and politics, an evaluation of the applied solutions in specific European legal systems, the respect of rights and civil liberties, an awareness of the rights, responsibilities and political issues tied to Poland’s membership in the European Union, and the way in which Basic Law is perceived by society.

The conference had an interdisciplinary nature, and almost 30 speakers from 12 scientific centers in Poland took part in it.