Honorabile President of Hungary Dr János Áder, President of the EU Court of Justice Prof. Dr Koen Lenaerts, and President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Prof. Dr Andreas Voßkuhle, Prof. László Trócsányi, Hungary’s Minister of Justice, esteemed Presidents, Vice presidents and Justices of the Constitutional Courts and Highest Courts, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen! We are happy to welcome … Tovább
Mr. President, Minister, esteemed fellow justices, dear friends and colleagues. First of all I take this opportunity to thank the Constitutional Court of Hungary for its kind hospitality in inviting me to attend this prestigious conference and for giving me the opportunity to address you here this morning.
I would like to start by reminding you of a basic truth that is at once self-evident and fundamentally important.… Tovább
Wer mit „Constitutional EUdentity“ die Frage nach der konstitutionellen Identität der EU stellt, kann die Frage nach gemeinsamen Werten in Europa nicht vermeiden. Identität ist ein Ausdruck, der die Eigentümlichkeiten und die Wesensmerkmale einer Entität beschreibt, die diese kennzeichnen und eigentlich ausmachen. Was die EU als Wertegemeinschaft ausmacht, … Tovább
Honorable Presidents, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Guests,
I was fascinated by the lecture of Mr. President Voßkuhle and his characterization of the order of values in Europe as the elixir of life, nurturing and growing our community. We do indeed have common values, based on which we should grow together. Being a professor of constitutional law, I am convinced that any debate about these very popular … Tovább
In Art. 2 EUV heißt es: Die Werte, auf die sich die Union gründet, sind die Achtung der Menschenwürde, Freiheit, Demokratie, Gleichheit, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und die Wahrung der Menschenrechte einschließlich der Rechte der Personen, die Minderheiten angehören. Diese Werte sind allen Mitgliedstaaten in einer Gesellschaft gemeinsam, die sich durch Pluralismus, Nichtdiskriminierung,… Tovább
The European integration process has been the most successful exercise in the history of our continent. It has been and is confronted with numerous challenges and a series of crises prompting various reactions generally called reforms. (No wonder that the two most frequently used words in the history of European construction are crisis and reform.)
One of the main reasons for this success is the fundamental and indispensable… Tovább