On 23-24 November 2023, the Central European Academy in Budapest hosted an international scientific conference on ‘Federalism vs. Co-existence? Divergent paths for the EU and the role of member states’.

Participants at the meeting presented the results of research aimed at identifying how EU Member States, and in particular individual institutions, act, or can act, to achieve cooperative coexistence, and which processes and institutions may need to be re-examined (e.g. redefinition of EU and Member State competences, revision of the principle of primacy, better understanding of the process of federalism, etc.).

The Copernicus Academy was represented by Dr Witold Mazurek, Director of the Copernicus Academy Office. In the course of the discussions, held, among others, with Prof. Bojan Tubic from the Faculty of Law at the University of Novi Sad and Prof. Petar Bačić from the Faculty of Law at the University of Split, the possibility of bilateral scientific and research cooperation with scientific centres in Croatia, Serbia and Hungary was discussed.

The conference was organised in cooperation with the Ministry of EU Affairs in preparation for the Hungarian EU Presidency in 2024.

PARTNERS

• Ferenc Mádel Institute of Comparative Law
• Faculty of Law, University of Miskolc
• Central European Comparative Law Association