AEAJ 2025 Work Programme and President's Wishes

AEAJ 2025 Work Programme

AEAJ releases its 2025 Work Programme, which summarises its activities for the coming year.

The seminars of the AEAJ Working Groups will be:

- WG Independence and Efficiency, 15 & 16 May 2025, Ljubljana: Towards the Cyber-Administrative Judge

- WG Taxation, 29 & 30 May 2025, Vilnius: The never ending story of tax fraud

- WG Environmental Law, 18 & 19 September 2025, Würzburg: No plan is perfect - Urban and environmental planning under judicial planning

- WG Asylum and Immigration, 18 & 19 September 2025, Brussels

The two AEAJ-EJTN joint seminars:

- The Role of the Administrative Judge and Court Staff in the State, 6 & 7 March 2025, Porto

- Conflict of Norms - Multi-level protection in the application of Fundamental Rights, 3 & 4 April 2025, Prague

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President's Wishes

Dear colleagues, dear friends,

Will 2025 be the Year of the Cyber?

Last November, the unacceptable comments from tech billionaire Elon Musk against Italian asylum judges highlighted, by contrast, how valuable independent administrative judiciaries are for our European democracies.

AEAJ stopped using X and its account is inactive now. The decision was already made easier by the small proportion of real users on this platform, limiting its interest for our external communication.

At the same moment, we suffered a scam cyberattack via fake emails. I personally contacted the French cybersecurity agency about this issue. It confirmed both that our response was appropriate and that the chances to find the perpetrators are slim.

But in November 2024 as well, we released our new AEAJ website: a contemporary outlook, some new features and a few creative design points!

The new website includes a News section which is progressively fed with information from us and our partners, such as the EJTN Catalogue of Training Activities, which includes our two AEAJ-EJTN seminars, or the release of the ELI-Mount Scopus European Standards of Judicial Independence, to which AEAJ contributed. We are also particularly proud to refer to the recent interview of Mehmet Tank, and we salute our Turkish colleagues who stay courageously committed for the Rule of Law.

Our website, accessible to all European colleagues and beyond, is our first social media.

In the coming weeks, we will go further and start a new project: the creation of a proper mailing list database, for which we chose the provider. All of our contacts – and you first! – will have to create a profile on our page. That will greatly help us to manage mailing at a new scale. More details on this will come later.

Therefore, will tech bring new propellants to administrative justice? Or will we all be sick of tech before it has even started to make our work better? The best thing to do is … to deliberate about it. This is why the topic of the coming seminar of our Working Group Independence and Efficiency – Ljubljana, 16 & 17 May 2025 – will be: “Towards the Cyber Administrative Judge: transforming rhe judicial process at the Digital Age”. We expect you to be many to come in Ljubljana!

Dear colleagues, dear friends, I wish you a pleasant and fulfilling experience for this New Year, both on personal and professional grounds. And I’m eager to see you – as always.

Yours faithfully,

Sylvain Mérenne

President of AEAJ