Asoc. Prof., Dr. iur. Irēna Kucina President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia Panel: Different National Constitutional Law “Constellations” Relevant for the EU Law “The duty of loyalty towards EU law in the constellation of protection of individual fundamental rights” Dear Colleagues, Allow me to begin by expressing heartfelt thanks to the Court of Justice […]

Ms. Irēna KUCINA President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia “Legal Responses to Threats Against Constitutional Values” Honourable Madame President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova! Distinguished Representatives of Moldova’s State Institutions, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission, Esteemed Judges, […]

Esteemed Madam Minister for Justice, Honourable Acting President of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Dear colleagues, judges, professors, implementors and participants of the project of the European Union and the Council of Europe “Support to Development of the Constitutional Justice in Ukraine, I warmly welcome you at the international conference “The Role of Constitutional Courts in Ensuring the Resilience […]

Rīga, 7 February 2025   History teaches us… Lessons of the past for our present turbulent times   President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, President of the Constitutional Court of Latvia, Irēna Kucina, esteemed judges, excellencies, dear friends! I am both honoured and pleased to be with you on this solemn occasion here in Rīga. I […]

Honourable President, Honourable Former President of the Republic of Iceland, Excellences, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear audience – both here, in the courtroom of the Constitutional Court, and online, Colleagues and friends of the Court in Latvia and abroad, Dear people of Latvia, Already for the seventh successive time, the solemn hearing of the Constitutional Court […]

Contribution by President of the Constitutional Court Aldis Laviņš “Political and legal within the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts” at 19th Congress of the Conference of European Constitutional Courts (CECC)[1]   Chisinau, 22 May 2024   Distinguished Colleagues! There is no doubt that we, judges of constitutional courts, have extensive knowledge how the political considerations […]

Krakow, 9 May 2024 Dear Colleagues and Friends, Time goes fast, our project is also gaining momentum! Welcome at our meeting on exchange experience on the use of the right to file a constitutional individual complaint within the eagerly anticipated project, “Support for the Development of Constitutional Justice in Ukraine”. I will emphasize again that […]

Strasbourg, 18 April 2024 Dear Colleagues! Our visit today is a significant moment, because the judges of the Constitutional Court in a full composition visit the European Court of Human Rights for the first time in our 27 years history. So far, we have hosted only individual judges at the Constitutional Court of Latvia, organized […]

President of the Constitutional Court of Latvia Aldis Laviņš Opening address at the conference “The Role of the Constitutional Courts in Concretising the Shared Values Uniting Europe” Riga, 1 March 2024 Highly honourable Minister for Justice! Dear colleagues, Judges, professors and conference participants! Welcome to the International Conference of the Constitutional Court of Latvia “The […]

Esteemed Mr President, Esteemed President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Excellences, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear participants on-site and those following us remotely, This is the sixth time when the new judicial year of the Constitutional Court is opened at a solemn hearing, at which the Constitutional Court reports to every person […]