The President of the Constitutional Court, Dr. Dainius Žalimas, welcoming the participants of the Congress, stressed that the judges and legal scholars in attendance would be faced with the difficult task of finding solutions to the challenges for democracy through constitutional means. The participants of the congress were greeted by the Chair of the Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs Dr. Agnė Širinskienė, Vilnius Mayor Dr. Remigijus Šimašius, and the Dean of the Law School of Mykolas Romeris University, Dr. Lyra Jakulevičienė.
The congresses on European and comparative constitutional law have become widely known and internationally recognized, and have become an important platform for cooperation between practitioners and scholars in this field. Such a platform is important given that today’s constitutional law is no longer purely national, but it has many universal concepts that are discussed internationally and is based on the values and traditions of European and global constitutional heritage. These congresses were held for eighteen years at the University of Regensburg in Germany and later traveled to other countries: the XIX Congress was held in Moldova, the XX Congress in Poland, the XXI Congress in Spain, and the organization of the XXII Congress was entrusted to the Constitutional Court of Lithuania.