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Teema: ELI Charter of Fundamental Constitutional Principles of a European

Democracy - Webinar Invitation 11 March 2024

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Dear Minister Laanet,

Please find attached an invitation from the European Law Institute (ELI)

President Pascal Pichonnaz and Vice-Presidents Anne Birgitte Gammeljord

and Sir Geoffrey Vos to you and your Team to participate in the Webinar

on Liberal Democracy, which will take place online on 11 March 2024 from

12:30 to 14:00 CET.

We hope that you and your Team will be able to join the event.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Many thanks for your consideration.

Kind regards Tomasz Dudek

The European Law Institute AISBL/IVZW | Reg No 0837 276 779

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Bruxelles 1000 – BELGIUM

The President and Vices

Schottenring 16/175 | 1010 Vienna | Austria [email protected]

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Vienna, 6 March 2024

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Dear Minister Laanet

On behalf of the European Law Institute (ELI), an entirely independent non-profit organisation established to provide practical guidance in relation to European legal development, we write to draw your attention to the recently published ELI Charter of Fundamental Constitutional Principles of a European Democracy (unedited draft available here, copyedited and formatted version will be available on ELI website soon). The ELI Charter identifies and articulates the constitutional principles which form the foundations of a European

liberal democratic state. ELI hopes that its Charter, which aims at providing general guidance to public authorities,

jurists, individuals, and civil society on fundamentals expected of any such genuine democracy properly so-called,

will be drawn upon by legislatures and courts in Europe and beyond, and that it may inspire future constitutional

developments. The Charter is both timely and of utmost importance, in times marked by unrest and democratic

backsliding.

The underlying premise of the ELI Charter is that a European liberal democratic state is based on majority rule but

is constrained by the obligation to respect the rule of law, including fundamental human rights. Although focused

on the fundamental constitutional principles of European states, there is of course no assertion that Europe has

the monopoly of liberal democracy. This Charter therefore also refers to international initiatives and constitutional

norms found beyond Europe and seeks to have global resonance.

Among the innovative aspects of the ELI Charter is that it also seeks to capture contemporary challenges posed by

political extremism or illiberal populism and novel threats such as media manipulation and fake news.

Furthermore, it aims at providing a value framework within which modern pan-European concerns, such as

sustainability, artificial intelligence and automation, and the role of internet platforms can be assessed. Those

issues have not been previously captured in a comprehensive way in a report of this nature.

We are also pleased to invite you and your Team on this occasion to a series of webinars on each of the Charter’s

chapter, which will start with the inaugural webinar on Liberal Democracy on 11 March 2024 from 12:30 to 14:00

CET. More information about it and a link to register is available here.

Should you wish to schedule a one to one meeting with us and Project Co-Chairs, Prof Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG KC

and Prof Sir Francis Jacobs KCMG KC, and Co- Reporters, Prof Dr Takis Tridimas and Prof Dr Elise Muir, or should

you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the ELI Secretariat.

Yours sincerely

Prof Dr Pascal Pichonnaz Anne Birgitte Gammeljord Sir Geoffrey Vos

ELI President First ELI Vice-President Second ELI Vice-President