The 14th Constitutional Days addressed the relationship between national and European law

On 2 and 3 October 2025, the Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic, Marián Trenčan, participated in the international scientific conference XIV. Constitutional Days, organized by the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. The theme of this year’s event was “The Relationship between National Law and European Union Law”.

At the Constitutional Days 2025, contributions were made by, for example, the Director of the Luxembourg Center for European Law Takis Tridimas, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic Pavel Šámal, Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union Miroslav Gavalec and other erudite experts in constitutional and European law. Dozens of experts and academics in the field of law from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary accepted the invitation to the conference.

The organizers arranged the lectures on the first day at the premises of the Constitutional Court and on the second day at the Faculty of Law in Košice. The contributions concerned Slovakia’s obligations arising from its membership in the EU, the current decision-making activity of the CJEU, common and different standards of protection of fundamental rights in the case law of the CJEU and the European Court of Human Rights. They also touched on the current amendment to the Constitution of the Slovak Republic.

“The primacy of EU law over national law in value issues related to respect for fundamental rights and the principles of the rule of law is an extremely current issue, especially in the context of the latest amendment to the Constitution, and the Constitutional Court is the best place for a discussion on the topics raised,” said Marián Trenčan, Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court, assessing the timing of the conference topic.