site.btaBulgaria Represented at 3rd Annual Meeting of Balkan Constitutional Courts Forum

A delegation of Bulgaria's Constitutional Court is taking part in the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Balkan Constitutional Courts Forum, which is underway in Antalya, Turkiye from November 13 to 16, the Bulgarian institution said on Thursday.

After the first two successful conferences in Bulgaria (Sofia) and Kosovo (Pristina), this autumn’s host of the forum is Turkiye. In Antalya, the Bulgarian delegation is represented by Constitutional Court President Pavlina Panova, constitutional judges Galina Toneva and Nevin Feti, the Court's Secretary-General Valentin Georgiev and rapporteur Desislava Kemalova. During the event, constitutional judge Nevin Feti will deliver a report on the standardization of human rights and the role of constitutional justice".

The Balkan Constitutional Courts Forum was established on the initiative of Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court on October 27, 2023, in Sofia, with the aim of exchanging experience and best practices among the constitutional jurisdictions of the Balkans on current issues in the field of constitutional justice. The memorandum for the creation and establishment of the regional organization was signed by Bulgaria's Constitutional Court and the constitutional jurisdictions of Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkiye, and Montenegro. At the first conference in the Bulgarian capital, discussions involved representatives from a total of 10 countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Romania, and Croatia.

A year later, on October 24, 2024, the second meeting of the Balkan Constitutional Courts Forum took place in Kosovo. In the capital Pristina, professional debates among representatives of seven countries focused on the evolution of contemporary constitutional justice and the example of the Balkan region.