On 23 March 1933, an act was adopted in Nazi Germany in response to the “crisis” of the Reichstag fire to enable Hitler to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency. Article 48 ...
This is a first reaction (usual caveats for quick reactions apply…) to yesterday’s decision of the German Constitutional Court on the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Program. This is part of the ECB ...
Autocratic crisis management as model? In many countries around the world, the coronavirus outbreak may have increased the risk of democratic retrogression, as a result of proto-autocratic emergency ...
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention, induced a debate of epic proportions which divided ...
On 13 January 2016, exactly four years ago today, the Commission activated its rule of law framework for the very first time with respect to Poland (for our previous 2-part post assessing the ...
“It’s political economy, stupid!” There is probably no better way to express our increasing frustration caused by the avalanche of commentaries on the Weiss judgment by the German Constitutional Court ...
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Commentaries to the German Federal Constitutional Court’s unprecedented judgment in Weiss (2 BvR 859/15 and others of 5 May 2020) are likely to focus on the German court’s argument on proportionality ...
Margaret Satterthwaite, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, is a key voice in the defense of justice and the rule of law worldwide. Focusing on judicial ...
Hungary is holding parliamentary elections on 8th April. While the systemic deficiencies of the Hungarian electoral system have received international attention, e.g. how redistricting and the party ...
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According to the Collins Dictionary, in a game of cat and mouse, one person “tries to confuse or deceive the second in order to defeat them”. Indeed, a cat-and-mouse game perfectly describes ...
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