Roundtable JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN CROATIA

On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 10:30 in the Aula of the University of Zagreb, Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo organized a roundtable Justice, Equality and Diversity in Croatia. This roundtable is part of Centre Miko Tripalo’s Jean Monnet project entitled European Values in a New Member State: Croatia in the First Five Years of EU Membership, co-financed by the European Union.

Speakers at the roundtable were: Antonija Petričušić, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo; Biserka Cvjetičanin, Institute for Development and International Relations and Centre Miko Tripalo; Ivo Josipović, Former President of the Republic 2010-2015, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo; Josip Kregar, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo; Alan Uzelac, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo. Foreign speakers at the roundtable were: Lucia Mokrá, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and Adam Sulikowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Tvrtko Jakovina, President of the Management Board of Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo, gave the opening speech and welcomed all the guests, members and friends of Centre Miko Tripalo and members of foreign embassies.  He said that divisions in society are not unusual or rare, and that we are once again witnessing the rise of nationlism and anti-globalism. In order to prevent this it is necessay to discuss European values: rule of law, freedom, equality. Centre Miko Tripalo shares these values and seeks to discuss them in Croatian and EU context. Dario Čepo, academic coordinator of the project and moderator of the roundtable, said everyone defines European values differently and that Centre Miko Tripalo aims to show how are these values transferred into Croatian society. As a part of the project, he announced an international conference to be held in December 2019.

Presentation topics:
EU Values as Pre-condition of Membership and its Implementation Afterwards
Lucia Mokrá, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratslava, Slovakia

Slow Consolidation of European Values: Endangered Minority Rights after the Croatian Accession to the EU
Antonija Petričušić, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo

Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue – Constitutive Principles od Democratic Society
Biserka Cvjetičanin, Institute for Development and International Relations and Centre Miko Tripalo

European Values in Poland – a Crisis of Apparent Consensus
Adam Sulikowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Regression of Society and the Justice System in Croatia
Ivo Josipović, Former President of the Republic 2010-2015, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo

Judiciary in Croatia: Can it be Improved?
Josip Kregar, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo

Legal Protection and Access to Justice in Croatia: Aporia of Integration
Alan Uzelac, Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo

At the beginning of the discussion Lora Vidović, Ombudswomen of the Republic of Croatia, gave her opinion on the matter. Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic Stavros Tsiepas and former minister of science and technology Gvozden Flegoalso participated in the discussion.