Over 700 leading experts from around the world participated in the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights’ (FRA) event which took place 25–27 September 2018 in Vienna. The FRA is one of the ELI’s esteemed Institutional Observers and is currently conducting a joint project with the ELI on Business and Human Rights: Access to Justice and Effective Remedies.

Boštjan Zalar, project reporter on the ELI’s Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants and the Rule of Law: Checklists and European Standards, was nominated in his capacity of advisor of the Common Constitutional Traditions (CCT) in Europe’s project to attend two panels at the FRA Forum on the project team’s behalf: ‘Protecting the Rule of Law by Promoting Understanding of and Respect for Judicial Independence and Accountability’ and ‘The Charter of Fundamental Rights: How to Make it a Better Known, Understood and Used Instrument’.

Among the aims of the CCT project is to seek to identify the source of Common Constitutional Traditions in Europe; their content; their relationship with national identity; whether they are an autonomous source of European law and the way in which they emerge as common to Member States and are expressed as such.