At the invitation of the Latvian Constitutional Court, the constitutional courts of the Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) exchanged views on their work for the first time in order to promote mutual understanding of each other’s approaches while respecting legal traditions and sometimes differences of opinion, at a conference held in Riga on 2 and 3 September.
“While we are speaking only through our judgements, genuine understanding is impossible, this...