Education and learning are parts of every human life. In Europe is education at least until certain age or level of education mandatory. European countries mostly offer an extensive network of public educational institutions, most students attend public schools. In addition to education, are throughout the history different religions also part of many people lives. Europe is a diverse continent inhabited by very different people belonging to diffrent religions. Conflict situations often occur due to public schools being a place where such people with different beliefs necessarily meet. Such conflicts are resolved primarly by national courts, but at the European level also by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
In the relevant field is the case law of the ECtHR very diverse, it does not go neither in the direction of secularism nor in the direction of erasing the division of state and religion. In the field of freedom of religion in public education is the case law of ECtHR characterized by giving a lot of weight to the margin of appreciation of individual countries. In its decisions, the ECtHR very often take into account the arguments of the country against which a particular proceeding is pending. These arguments are often of a historical, social and also political nature. Such argumets often justify different approaches in the field in question in individual European countries- including Slovenia.
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