Luxembourg's Constitution and EU Integration
peer reviewed ; Luxembourg is a well-integrated member state whose EU membership relies however on poorly developed constitutional foundations. This is yet to be changed by a major constitutional overhaul that is expected to come to an end in 2018. Three patterns must be born in mind to understand the country’s constitutional culture: the Constitution had been somewhat forgotten, its political system functions according to the idea of a ‘consensus democracy’ and its leading political principle is pragmatism. The only limit to further steps of EU integration is the requirement of a 2/3 majority... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | book part |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Hart
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Schlagwörter: | ‘Consensus democracy’ - Constitutional monarchy - EU citizens - Frontier workers – ‘Higher Law’ - Independent state - Legal pragmatism - ‘Luxembourgish social model - Monism – Primacy – Referendum - / Law / criminology & political science / Public law / Droit / criminologie & sciences politiques / Droit public |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27521175 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/23647 |
peer reviewed ; Luxembourg is a well-integrated member state whose EU membership relies however on poorly developed constitutional foundations. This is yet to be changed by a major constitutional overhaul that is expected to come to an end in 2018. Three patterns must be born in mind to understand the country’s constitutional culture: the Constitution had been somewhat forgotten, its political system functions according to the idea of a ‘consensus democracy’ and its leading political principle is pragmatism. The only limit to further steps of EU integration is the requirement of a 2/3 majority within Parliament in order to approve any competence transferring treaty. I the pure monistic tradition the domestic legal order is conceived in a way to avoid conflicts with international or EU law. EU norms enjoy full primacy even vis-à-vis constitutional rules.