A still recent sample of the current ius European jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC)

Authors

  • Antonio López Castillo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/redc.111.11

Keywords:

Constitutional Court, Court of the European Union, preliminary ruling, interpretation of constitutional conformity, control of constitutionality, ultra vires, constitutional identity, responsibility for integration, right to Democracy, no application...

Abstract

The OMT Judgment of the TCFA is a new step in the attempt to reformulate the relationship between the German Basic Law and the EU Law that characterizes his current European jurisprudence. If an indirect communication with the CJEU was attempted at the end of 2015, by means of interpretation of conformity based on the non conditionality of the standards that are part of the constitutional identity, in 2016 a direct relation is tried, in a preliminary way. The ECJ’s strong predisposition to dialogue, despite the procedural and substantive uniqueness of the WTO case, is reflected in a “clarification” that the Chamber receives in an ambiguous and ambivalent manner, conditioning certain criteria whose observance is left under the supervision of the constitutional bodies responsible for integration. Everything points to this “dispute” will continue.

Issue

Section

JURISPRUDENCE. CRITICAL STUDIES