constitutional law, legislation and implementation. It highlights the importance of the correlation between the catalogue of …

to be bound by EU fundamental rights when they derogate from Community law, or "Union law" in future. The same is true …, second, as regards the question of whether and under what conditions the supremacy of Community law (or, according to the … Praesidium's draft Article 9, "the law of the Union") cannot supersede national fundamental rights. A third fundamental problem …

The paper makes an attempt to map the Copenhagen criterion of democracy and the rule of law, one of the main … more than ten years ago, at the time of introduction of the criterion. How should democracy and rule of law be interpreted … law criterion was not really full, consistent and impartial and that the threshold to meet this criterion was very low. As …

culture of secrecy in Britain. Recent calls for a uniform interpretation of the law regarding public access to documents held …

in national and in Community law. Once such a fundamental principle of Community law is established, the exceptions to … Community law. This calls for a uniform interpretation of the law on public access to documents in the Community legal order. …

sovereignty. The paper will, firstly, analyse the standard of review's legal basis and the relevant case law. Next, a broad … argued that the standard of review is an important "constitutional" feature of WTO law, framing and limiting the exercise of …

The relationship between EC law and minority protection is ambiguous. EU law remains, at least prima facie, and in … contrast to international law, silent on this topic. This is interesting as there exists a (supposed) tension between the … therefore examines, whether EU law contains commitments regarding (its) minorities, which could point at the possible …