Articles for tag: Konstitutionalismus

In the shadow of sovereign debt conditionality: the rise of spending conditionality in the EU

For the last seven years, sovereign debt conditionality dominated the European public discourse. Courts called to adjudicate heavy conditions impeaching on constitutional core of EU nations. National parliaments vocally debating the democratic legitimacy of austerity measures. Executives busy implementing generous reform packages. Scholars actively commenting on the constitutional implications of crisis-driven conditionalities.

30. Juni 2016

Chronos and Kairos of Constitutionalism – The Polish case

Τοῖς πᾶσι χρόνος καὶ καιρὸς τῷ παντὶ πράγματι ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν. This Septuagint translation of a verse from the book of Ecclesiastes points to a fundamental distinction regarding the transience – the distinction between chronos (time) and kairos (a right moment). Time is everlasting and consists of singular kairoi. Kairos, being its constitutive part, should not defy the structure of time. This distinction bares on the way in which we should understand any change of a constitution that claims to belong to free and equal citizens.

28. Juni 2016

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The constitutional framework of power distribution within the Eurasian integration process: bellum omnium contra omnes

After the fall of the Soviet Union, many post-Soviet countries pursued integration among themselves, leading to various regional arrangements. Those had little success for an array of reasons stemming from considerable differences among the many integrating states. Eventually, an understanding came along, that in order to make things work, a change in approach is needed. Among others, such a change would require an efficient legal framework and stronger regional institutions capable of upholding it. These features were played with on the way to the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which was obviously inspired by certain narratives about the EU integration process, and eventually launched in 2015.

28. Juni 2016

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Transformation of EU Constitutionalism

The EU constitutionalism has been transformed. For the worse. The causes for that are well known. They are the sum of consecutive, unresolved financial, economic, political, humanitarian and security crises. This post is not interested into causal relationship between the crises. It centers instead on their aggregate negative outcome and the possible way ahead. It asks what exactly the EU constitutionalism, as a dominant narrative of European integration, has (d)evolved into and what can be done to fix its fissures?

22. Juni 2016

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Polish Judiciary and Constitutional Fidelity: beyond the institutional “Great Yes”?

The Polish Supreme Court and the Polish Supreme Administrative Court both have published resolutions to back the Constitutional Court in its conflict with the ruling PiS majority in Parliament. The statements from Poland's highest courts and the societal mobilization are first symptoms of a constitutional fidelity in the making.

12. Juni 2016

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Ungarn: Orbán verdoppelt seinen Einsatz

Viktor Orbáns Versuch, seine Macht konstitutionell abzusichern, geht weiter: Das Verfassungsgericht und das Wahlrecht sind die jüngsten Angriffsziele, und in beiden Punkten gibt es Beunruhigendes zu berichten. Ich beziehe meine Informationen aus einem E-Mail-Wechsel landeskundiger Politologen und Juristen, allen voran Kim Lane Scheppele aus Princeton und Andrew Arato von der New School in New York. Leichenschändung an der alten Verfassung Zunächst zum Verfassungsgericht: Der Plan, das Gericht zu vergrößern und die neuen Posten mit Gefolgsleuten zu besetzen, ist mittlerweile umgesetzt. Dabei hatte es Orbán offenbar besonders eilig: Weil die neue Verfassung, die die Vergrößerung des Gerichts vorsieht, erst zum Jahreswechsel ... continue reading

16. Juli 2011

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Caudillo-Konstitutionalismus

Kein Kontinent ist freudiger am Werk, wenn es ans Verfassunggeben geht, als Lateinamerika. Unerreichter Spitzenreiter ist die Dominikanische Republik: 32 Verfassungen seit der Staatsgründung 1821. Dann kommt Venezuela mit 26, Haiti mit 24 und Ecuador mit 20 – die letzte davon 2008, stolze 444 Artikel lang und voller wunderbarer Grundrechte wie zum Beispiel dem in Art. 383 niedergelegten Grundrecht auf la ampliación de las condiciones físicas, sociales y ambientales para su disfrute. Das heißt, wenn ich mein Küchenspanisch zusammenkratze, in etwa: auf Vermehrung der physischen, sozialen und umweltmäßigen Bedingungen des Genusses. Bin ich sehr dafür. Ich entnehme diese Zahlen einem ... continue reading

25. Mai 2010

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