The Alexandrion Foundation organised, on 30 and 31 March, the first edition of The Sinaia Debates, an event that launches a series of debates of public interest, with renowned participants from both Romania and abroad.<\/p>\n
“The Sinaia Debates are a concept through which we wish to bring together leading national and international figures from politics, administration, the legal field and the media, to put topics of interest to our society up for debate. The guests are recruited from among the most competent and creative personalities in the fields discussed, and we wish to establish here, in Sinaia, a far-reaching system from which real solutions for society can emerge<\/em>. We begin with the field of law, because a country without justice and without fair rules cannot function<\/em>” <\/em>said Mr Nawaf Salameh, Chairman of the Alexandrion Foundation, at the opening of the event.<\/em><\/p>\n “The debate<\/em> organised by the Alexandrion Foundation is the first in a series that we want to see continued, through which we are trying to raise debates in Romania to a better level, to an internationally verifiable level. And what has been done so far, after one day of debates, can be said to have been a success in terms of the professionalism of the participants and the representation <\/em>of the diverse opinions in Romanian society, and a success in terms of capturing the actual problems faced by the rule of law in present-day Romania<\/em>,” <\/em>concluded Prof. Andrei Marga, Vice-President of the Jury of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards, Alexandrion Foundation<\/p>\n The theme of the first edition was “The Rule of Law. Premises, Conditions, Functioning”, and the format included three different rounds of debate. The first centred on the premises of the rule of law, the second round addressed the conditions of the rule of law, while the third focused on the functioning of the rule of law in our country.<\/p>\n “The rule of law, a concept used extremely widely today, is not a creation of our times and not even an exclusive creation of modernity, but an aspiration of humanity that dates back thousands of years. If we return to the sources that represent this aspiration towards the rule of law, we will have formidable surprises. Many things over which we argue so fiercely today found their solutions 3,000 to 4,000 years ago,” <\/em>said Prof. Dr. Ladislau Gyemant.<\/p>\n “A large part of my speech referred to the rule of law, and starting from it I came to what I believe is the most important aspect: that the intrusion of politics is probably inevitable, but infamous and not very good from the point of view of the law. It is absolutely essential to remember that the separation of powers must be guaranteed; otherwise the beginning, the middle and the end of the functions performed, both by law and by politics, are lost,” <\/em>said Prof. Dr. Armando Marques-Guedes.<\/p>\n A practical and dynamic element was added to the concepts and theories debated in the three discussion panels.<\/p>\n “<\/em>Now, as a professor of law, I cannot fail to be concerned, beyond theorising the requirements of the rule of law, with the fact that it is necessary, and at the same time, I believe, a solution for progress from this perspective, to have legal education itself, which we must see both at the level of society and especially for the young generation, for students and even earlier, for high-school pupils. There has been more and more discussion lately about the need for legal education in schools, a project that I support with all my strength and that, in the longer term, I believe can also result in an understanding and substantiation of the rule of law<\/em>,” <\/em>argued Prof. Septimiu Panaite.<\/p>\n Moreover, the participants debated a wide range of subjects, such as the meaning of the law, the jurisdiction of the rule of law, the separation of powers, democratic legitimacy, deviations within the rule of law, correction mechanisms in the rule of law, and law in the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Alexandrion Foundation organised, on 30 and 31 March, the first edition of The Sinaia Debates, an event that launches a series of debates of public interest, with renowned participants from both Romania and abroad. “The Sinaia Debates are a concept through which we wish to bring together leading national and international figures from politics, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alx_galerie":"534,535","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}