On 2 and 3 May, Justice Jan Wintr participated in the Heidelberger Gesprächskreis Europäischer Verfassungsgerichtsverbund meeting in Heidelberg. The two-day discussion dealt with two topics: 1. the basic standards of judicial reform and judicial independence in light of the Polish judicial reform, and 2. with the reinterpretation of the foundations of European integration in the important decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU of 16 February 2022 on the actions of Poland and Hungary against the regulation conditioning payments from the EU budget on compliance with the rule of law. The event was attended, among others, by the Polish Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar, the President of the Austrian Constitutional Court Christoph Grabenwarter, the Vice-President of the German Federal Constitutional Court Doris König, other judges of the Constitutional Courts of Italy, Hungary, Germany and Austria, the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU, and the Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law (organizer).