Military Actions on Dubious Legal Bases
A major migrant crisis continues in Poland and Belarus. For months, thousands of migrants from Middle Eastern countries attempted to enter Poland threatened by Belarusian troops. As a reaction, Poland...
View ArticleA Blatant Attack on Free Media
In a recent and shocking judgment of the first instance, a criminal court in Warsaw has found the Polish journalist Ewa Siedlecka guilty of criminal libel (defamation) for commenting on the organized...
View ArticleDas Damoklesschwert über der europäischen Rechtsordnung
Am 16. November fand vor der Großen Kammer des EuGH die mündliche Verhandlung im Verfahren C-562/21 PPU statt. In diesem ging es um einen europarechtlichen Dauerbrenner: den europäischen Haftbefehl...
View ArticleVerfassungsPod #2: EU v. Polen
Der Konflikt zwischen der EU und Polen ist bereits viel weiter eskaliert, als man bis vor kurzem für vorstellbar gehalten hätte. Und immer noch ist kein Ende in Sicht. Aus dem innerpolnischen...
View ArticleThe Duty to Exhaust Remedies with Systemic Deficiencies
On 3 February 2022, the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in Advance Pharma sp. z o.o v Poland and addressed for the first time the question of whether an applicant is required to...
View ArticleWhen Is a Court Still a Court?
On 3 February 2022, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the case of Advance Pharma sp.z o.o. against Poland. After the cases of Reczkowicz v. Poland and Dolińska-Ficek and Ozimek v....
View ArticleFrom Romania with Love
The CJEU judgment of 21 December 2021 (C-357/19 and others, Euro Box Promotion) explicitly extended the Union’s requirement of judicial independence to constitutional courts for the first time. The...
View ArticleMutual (Dis)trust
Last week, the General Court of the European Union, in its judgment T-791/19 Sped-Pro, recognized for the first time the impact that systematic rule of law deficiencies have on national competition...
View ArticleNo More Excuses
Sitting as a full court, due to the exceptional importance of the case, the Court of Justice has dismissed the annulment actions brought by the Hungarian and Polish governments against EU Regulation...
View ArticleIn Defense of Its Identity
The Court of Justice has spoken. The Commission may now, under Regulation 2020/2092, withhold monies from Member States that do not observe the rule of law.1)See CJEU, Judgment of 16 February 2022,...
View ArticleNot looking up
On 16 February the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its long-awaited judgment on Regulation 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget, in...
View ArticleThe Rule of Law in a Time of Emotions
The aggression against Ukraine is brazen, ruthless and shameless. Images of women and children at border crossings, shelters and subway stations filled with civilians and images of destruction evoke...
View Article“The Ever Closer Union among the Peoples of Europe” in Times of War
The war in Ukraine has brought a moment of the constitutional reckoning and the ultimate test of belonging for the Europeans. The ill-fated politics of appeasement and dialoguing with a criminal has...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Borders
Russia’s invasion on Ukraine has once again brought attention to Poland’s borders, as the majority of persons fleeing the war are crossing the border to Poland. Last summer, Poland’s policy with regard...
View ArticleStatement by Retired Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal on the the...
Retired judges of the Constitutional Tribunal state that the judgment in question is another scandalous example of jurisprudence violating the Constitution. Challenging Article 6 of the ECHR for the...
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Two Plus Two Equals Four
In November 2020, I ceded the Verfassungsblog editorial to judge Igor Tuleya, so that you could learn from him first-hand what the Polish PiS government’s judicial policy means in practice. Now there...
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Zwei plus zwei ist vier
Im November 2020 habe ich das Verfassungsblog-Editorial dem polnischen Richter Igor Tuleya überlassen, damit Sie von ihm aus erster Hand erfahren, was die Justizpolitik der PiS-Regierung in der Praxis...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Freezing and Seizing
The Polish government argues that the only way to effectively seize the assets of Russian oligarchs is to amend the Polish Constitution, since it is currently impossible to do so without obtaining a...
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The Gaze Upon Us
There is a lot of shame west of the Oder in these weeks of war. None of the heads of state and government, according to an editorialist in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, will return from the G7 summit in...
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Der Blick auf uns
Es wird sich mächtig geschämt westlich der Oder in diesen Wochen des Krieges. Vom G7-Gipfel in Brüssel werde keiner der Staats- und Regierungschefs, so ein Leitartikler in der Süddeutschen Zeitung,...
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