The Venice Commission and the Moroccan Association of Constitutional Law organised the 2nd Intercultural Workshop on Democracy entitled “The new constitutionalism in the Arab world: the process of constitution making in a changing environment” on 12-13 May 2013.

This activity brought together constitution drafters from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia who exchanged their experiences in the field of constitutional reform. Among other issues, they compared the approaches used in launching the revision of their respective Constitutions, the procedure used for their elaboration and adoption and the implementation of the constitutional provisions through new legislation. The Venice Commission believes that such dialogue could be extremely useful not only for the countries involved, but for constitutionalists in general.

This workshop was organised in the framework of the joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Union, financed by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe, South Programme I « Strengthening democratic reform in the Southern Neighbourhood », with a contribution from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and Hanns - Seidel Foundation.