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Verfassungsblog | 17. April 2012 — The Heidelberg proposal, with its suggestion of the adoption of a Reverse-Solange Doctrine by the CJEU, has sparked considerable debate. Much of this debate has focused on the question how such a doctrine would fit into the current body of European law and whether its adoption would represent…

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Verfassungsblog | 3. April 2012 — Peter Lindseth’s post directed at my own intervention on the Heidelberg proposal deserves a response, if only because it opens up debate about a basic divide in scholarship on the European Union. Do we understand the Union as an administrative or a constitutional construct? This has impor…

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Verfassungsblog | 22. März 2012 — Auch wenn „Rettungsschirm“ nicht unbedingt das Wort des Monats ist stellt der Vorschlag des Bogdandy-Teams für eine umgekehrte Solange-Doktrin (im Folgenden als Solange-Reversed Vorschlag bezeichnet) eine überzeugende starke Argumentation für die Verbindung von Grundrechten und Bürgerschaft…

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MarkenBlog | 19. März 2012 — Die Top-Markenanmelder bei der WIPO im Jahr 2011: Novartis (Switzerland) Philip Morris (Switzerland) Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma (Germany) Richter Gedeon Nyrt (Hungary) Nestlé (Switzerland) Philips (Netherlands) BMW Aktiengesellschaft (Germany) Quelle: WIPO …

Verfassungsblog | 13. März 2012 — By ARMIN VON BOGDANDY, MATTHIAS KOTTMANN, CARLINO ANTPÖHLER, JOHANNA DICKSCHEN, SIMON HENTREI and MAJA SMRKOLJ First of all we would like to express our deep gratitude to Max Steinbeis and the commentators for furthering this debate on an important aspect of the Europe to come. Before we tu…

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Verfassungsblog | 6. März 2012 — EU-Mitgliedsstaaten müssen sich nicht vertragen. Aber ihr Streit darf nicht so weit gehen, dass sie nicht mehr miteinander reden. Zu diesem Schluss kommt Generalanwalt Yves Bot in seinen heute veröffentlichten Schlussanträgen in einem Fall, der sich – jawohl – um Ungarn dreht. Genauer gesa…

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Verfassungsblog | 1. März 2012 — Ungarns Ministerpräsident Victor Orban und die von ihm kontrollierte Regierungspartei Fidesz sind seit der letzten Parlamentswahl 2010, bei der sie 53% der Wählerstimmen aber 68% der Sitze im Parlament auf sich vereinen konnten, dabei, das ungarische Verfassungssystem neu auszurichten. Dabei…

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Verfassungsblog | 28. Februar 2012 — It is a tribute to the thoughtfulness of the Heidelberg proposal that it has stimulated such a provocative exchange of views so far. It is quite obvious that, regardless of one’s position vis-à-vis the merits of ‘reverse Solange’, there is widely shared concern regarding the evolution of the …

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Verfassungsblog | 27. Februar 2012 — ... to read it not only as a reaction to the developments of the last year and a half in Hungary, but as a response to a deeper problem of the European Union, of which the Hungarian case is ... precepts. It is important to recall, that the first compelling response of the Union to developmen…

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Verfassungsblog | 27. Februar 2012 — ... of the universally recognized basic rights – although these also arise, as the example of Hungary tellingly demonstrates – but to the fact that essentially different contents of seemingly identical rights ... -law seem to demonstrate. Between the legal and the political All the proble…

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Verfassungsblog | 24. Februar 2012 — ... Of course the arguments by MEPs calling for a tough stance on Hungary will be countered by those who will banalize or even defend ... is, including the preventive mechanism) suggests to me that today’s Hungary is precisely the sort of scenarios which were envisaged by its ... was nowher…

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Verfassungsblog | 23. Februar 2012 — ... solutions. No Practical Solutions for Hungary As a starting point, the ... : the Courts should cope with Hungary’s constitutional changes by linking ... ECtHR with the supervision of Hungary. Towards Political Solutions There is ... take this political character of Hungary …

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Verfassungsblog | 22. Februar 2012 — I welcome the Heidelberg proposal! Several years ago – long before the Zambrano judgment confirmed the idea – I wrote a piece explaining that a “reverse Solange” idea could already be discerned from such early cases as Carpenter and Chen. Despite the doctrinal niceties that provided c…

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Verfassungsblog | 21. Februar 2012 — ... be of special concern to EU citizens. Because Hungary is a Member of the EU, Hungarian ... have, as Hungarians, as non-Hungarians living in Hungary or as non-Hungarians partially governed by EU ... European institutions against infringing acts of states like Hungary. The significance o…

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Verfassungsblog | 18. Februar 2012 — ... Bogdandy and his team explicitly reject the use of ‘reverse Solange’ to target ‘simple and isolated fundamental rights infringements’. Moreover, the Commission’s ‘accelerated infringement procedure’ against Hungary would suggest that the existing ‘police patrols’ in European public law ar…

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