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Parliamentary democracy vs judicial activism: not just a Polish or Hungarian issue!

Olivier Bault April 6, 2020

European Union - The issue of parliamentary democracy versus judicial activism is not just about Poland and Hungary, even though the focus of the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) seems to have been largely centred…

Interviews

Tomasz Przesławski (Polish Supreme Court judge): “Many of the current actions of representatives of the legal professions can be seen as a threat to basic legal values”

Olivier Bault January 8, 2020

Interview with Tomasz Przesławski, Polish Supreme Court judge defending the judicial reforms carried out by PiS: "Many of the current actions of representatives of the legal professions can be seen as a threat to basic legal values, causing chaos in the legal…

Politics

Polish democracy defends itself against EU-supported judges

Olivier Bault January 3, 2020

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Parliamentary democracy in Poland defends itself against EU-supported judicial activism. As was to be expected, only two months after Poland’s parliamentary elections, which gave the United Right coalition led by the Law and Justice (PiS) social-conservative party…

Politics

Obstacles left by the outgoing Juncker Commission to improved relations with Warsaw and Budapest

Olivier Bault September 14, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally publishedon Kurier.plusby the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation European Union - While Poland and Hungary can hardly count on the new European Parliament constituted after the May 23–26 elections to take a less offensive…

Politics

Polish judges call for the Court of Justice of the EU against the parliamentarian democracy

Olivier Bault October 17, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The mechanism of the preliminary ruling that allows any court to turn to the Court of Justice of the European Union, is instrumentalized by Polish judges struggling with the reforms of the judicial institution voted by the…

Interviews

Zoltán Kovács: “the decision of the European Court is rather a political decision than a legal decision”

Nicolas de Lamberterie September 7, 2017

Following the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the migrants quotas, the Visegrád Post called the spokesperson of the Hungarian government, Zoltán Kovács, to ask how the governement of Prime Minister Orbán is facing the current situation…

Society

The European Court ruled against Hungary and Slovakia on the migrant quotas case

The Editorial Board September 6, 2017

European Union - The Court of Justice of the European Union rejected the legal challenge by Hungary and Slovakia of mandatory relocation migrants quotas that Brussels wants to impose to all member states. The ultimate judicial authority of the European Union, the Court of…