Der Trumpf wird zur Last
In Polen wird gerade sehr deutlich, dass es nicht im politischen Interesse liegt, Gerichte parteipolitisch auszurichten. Seit Jahren beobachtet die Öffentlichkeit entsetzt, wie die Parlamentsmehrheit...
View ArticleOf Asymmetries, Aspirations and…Values, too
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” William Butler Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven How are the transnational legal order (“TLO”) and transnational governance affected by the...
View ArticleDivine Decision-Making
The most recent abortion decision of 22 October 2020 of Poland’s Constitutional Court (“the Court”) did not come as a surprise. It is not, as some commentators would like to see, an aberration, a...
View ArticleA Tragic Constitutional Court Judgment on Abortion
The law providing for the illegality of abortion has been in force in Poland since 1993. Now, a judgment of the Constitutional Court of 22 October 2020 (ref. K 1/20) declared that one of the three...
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Auch im Gefängnis
Zu kommentieren gäbe es in dieser ereignisreichen Woche wahrhaftig wieder mal genug. Aber ich habe mich entschieden, heute IGOR TULEYA, Richter am Warschauer Bezirksgericht, das Wort zu überlassen für...
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Even in Prison
There is certainly no lack of comment-worthy topics this week. Nevertheless, I decided to cede this week’s editorial to IGOR TULEYA, judge at the Warsaw District Court. Why? Read for yourself: Judge...
View ArticleDie Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter?
Grenzen schließen und Rückzug ins nationale Schneckenhaus waren die ersten Reaktionen auf die Corona-Krise. Das war nicht sonderlich europäisch. Zwischenzeitlich ist die Einsicht gewachsen, dass doch...
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From Warsaw with Love
To open the Frankfurter Allgemeine first thing in the morning is what a good German lawyer can be relied upon to do, which is obviously also known in Warsaw: In today’s issue there is an op-ed by the...
View ArticleTime Is of the Essence
The announced veto of the Hungarian and Polish governments on the EU multi-annual budget and the European recovery fund has caused a major stir in recent days in Europe. The motives for the veto are...
View ArticleA Momentous Day for the Rule of Law
Tuesday 1 December 2020 – back in Luxembourg For the second time after the hearing on 8 March, resulting in an order for interim measures, I went to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg to...
View ArticleA New Nail in the Coffin for the 2017 Polish Judicial Reform
On 1 December the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR gave an important ruling that may have wide-reaching implications for the ongoing attempts to curb the rule of law backsliding in Poland and other countries...
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Sue and Let Sue
Before I start: Could I ask you for a favour? We are trying to find out a bit more about the preferences of our readers. Please take two minutes and answer some VERY BRIEF QUESTIONS. Much obliged! The...
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Klagen und klagen lassen
Vorab: Darf ich Sie um einen Gefallen bitten? Wir versuchen etwas mehr über die Präferenzen unser Leser_innen herauszufinden. Wenn Sie zwei Minuten entbehren und DIESE KLEINE UMFRAGE hier ausfüllen...
View ArticleDisqualifying Instability
It is said that Russia has problems with its COVID-19 vaccine: they cannot maintain stability in production. Sometimes it comes out well, but only sometimes. But such a vaccine, to be useful, must be...
View ArticleCompromising the Rule of Law while Compromising on the Rule of Law
On 10 December 2020, the European Council adopted conclusions regarding the draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of...
View ArticleFilling the Polish ECtHR judgeship – risking (another) empty seat?
The Council of Europe institutions and the international community regularly criticize that national selection procedures for human rights courts judges too often fail to meet standards of fairness,...
View ArticleTowards an EU Cast in the Hungarian and Polish Mould
It is hard to appreciate the true significance of the compromise that saved the EU’s budget (MFF) and its post-pandemic recovery fund (NextGenEU) from the veto of two member states that are famous for...
View Article1825 Days Later: The End of the Rule of Law in Poland (Part I)
On 13 January 2016, exactly five years ago, the European Commission activated its rule of law framework for the very first time with respect to Poland. Five years later, Poland has become the first...
View Article1825 Days Later: The End of the Rule of Law in Poland (Part II)
For Part I see here. 3. Defending Judicial Independence while Denying Reality to Save Mutual Trust: The Court of Justice’s Mixed Contribution Following its seminal 2018 ruling in the Portuguese judges...
View ArticleA Weapon the Government Can Control
There is no need to describe in detail the crisis of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. I think this situation is well-known to the readers of Verfassungsblog. Let me start with a few comments in this...
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