Interview with Miklós Szánthó, Director of the Center for Fundamental Rights, a conservative legal think-tank based in Budapest.
Hungary has had differences with the European institutions and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for quite a while. What will be the impact of the German Constitutional Court’s recent ruling in the European Central Bank (ECB)’s stimulus?
Although the decision of the German Constitutional Court goes well beyond the specific case, this struggle for competence is far from new. The predecessor of the ECJ, back in 1958, still held that the fundamental rights enshrined in member state constitutions enjoy a priority over community law, but beginning with the 60s, and entirely on its...
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