“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 ...
Lenin once famously said that ‘ [t]here are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen’. This aptly describes the dizzying political sea change that Ethiopia has been ...
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 ...
The fresh joke among Turkish legal circles nowadays goes something like this: “Has a crime been committed and do you worry that law enforcement may not respond immediately to the situation? Just ...
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From Constitutional to Political Justice: The Tragic Trajectories of the Polish Constitutional Court
The story of an institution in decline The Polish Constitutional Court, once a proud institution and an effective check on the will of the majority, is now a shell of its former self. The ...
Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is short. Its title reads “Prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens”, its text reads: “Collective expulsion of aliens ...
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 protection of Hungary’s self-identity and its Christian culture is the duty of all state organizations” says one of the new provisions of the 7 th Amendment that was adopted on 20 June to change ...
Germany is in the middle of the global Corona Crisis. Currently, about 11,000 people are infected with the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and 20 people have died of Covid-19 in Germany. The DAX is ...
Governments, economists and intellectuals have called for common European bonds or increased own EU funds to address the recession induced by Covid19. Unfortunately, the German government, joined by ...
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