Our second meeting took place on September 10, 2018 in the centre of Madrid, where The Spanish National Bar Association (Consejo General de la Abogacía Española) provided us with the meeting place in their headquarters at Paseo de Recoletos 13.
The subject of the meeting was: “Procedural Guarantees in the Fight against Corruption and other Crimes in a Political Environment”.
The panel was formed by:
- SALVADOR GUERRERO PALOMARES, Attorney-at-Law in Madrid, and Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Málaga. He is a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the CCBE.
- JOSÉ MANUEL RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA, Procurator of the Republic in the Portuguese Constitutional Court, Lisbon.
- SANTIAGO SOLDEVILA FRAGOSO, a Member of the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid, and a former Member of the European Union General Court.
- MANUEL MEDINA ORTEGA, former member of the European Parliament acted as a moderator of the panel.
The total number of participants at the meeting was 31, including the chairman of the Portuguese Chapter, CARLOS DE ALMEIDA LEMOS, the Director of ERA, WOLFGANG HEUSEL, and the President of the Friends of ERA Association, JETTIE VAN CAENEGEM. The attendees contributed to an interesting discussion and lively exchange.
The meeting was followed by a lunch at the Café Gijón.
It was agreed that the next meeting of the Chapter should be again in Madrid in 2020 on a subject to be agreed later on.