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The Minister of Justice Summarises the first Georgian-German Legal Forum
The forum on the topic "Sharing the best experience on the path of Georgia's integration with the European Union" was held in Tbilisi for two days.
The event will take an annual form and will be held alternately in Georgia and Germany, which is a unique opportunity for sustainable and irreversible legal cooperation between the two countries.
The Georgian-German legal forum was planned within the framework of the memorandum of cooperation signed last year between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.
It is a platform that brings together both legislative, executive and judicial authorities, including representatives of the Ministry of Justice system and the scientific circle.
Within the framework of the forum, all of the participants had the opportunity to discuss current issues and challenges in the field of law, interesting reforms, innovations and new joint initiatives.
The forum created a solid legal cooperation format, which is of particular importance in the path of Georgia's integration with the European Union. Within the framework of the forum, the participating parties discussed such important legal issues as:
Institutional organisation of the legal systems of Georgia and Germany;
Georgia's legal rapprochement with the European Union;
improvement of international legal guarantees for the protection of children's rights;
The role of academia in policy development and science-based law-making;
Professional development of penitentiary and probation systems.
At the Georgian-German forum, special attention was paid to the approaches of rehabilitation and re-socialisation of convicts and continuous measures of raising the qualifications of employees. For the German side, as well as for the international community, the innovations introduced in Georgia- Public Service Halls in penitentiary institutions and Digital University - were especially interesting; At the two-day Georgian-German legal forum, the German delegation was led by the State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Angelika Shlunk.
The event was attended by Vice-President of the European Union Agency Eurojust, Boštjan Škrlec; representatives of legislative and judicial authorities; Heads of the Prosecutor's Office, Bar Association, Penitentiary Service and representatives of the academia.
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Candidates selected through the competition will be nominated on behalf of Georgia to participate in the election of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe, to be held in 2026.
The competition requirements are available at the following link.
Interested applicants must submit their applications no later than 19 January 2026.