Despre echilibrul puterilor: statul de drept în interiorul Uniunii Europene
Numărul 3 Anul 2023
In the legal order of the European Union (EU), the values contained in Article 2 TEU define the very identity of the Union as a common legal order. The common values, which include the rule of law, are embedded in the very DNA of the European integration project.
In its landmark judgment in Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses, the Court of Justice indicated the path towards defending the values contained in Article 2 TEU. Uphold...
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Statul de drept și identitatea constituţională a Uniunii Europene
Numărul 2 Anul 2023
The article deals with the implications that the values of the European Union have for the Member States, bearing in mind the central place of these values, listed in Article 2 TEU, in the European legal order. Among these values, the rule of law is the backbone of the modern democratic society. Courts of law – as independent arbitrators – are the guardians of the rule of law. Given the central role of national courts in the EU’s constitution...
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Curtea de Justiție a Uniunii Europene și independența judiciară
Numărul 1 Anul 2023
The article aims to provide a clear and convincing answer to several questions that have been a permanent topic of discussion since the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in case of „Portuguese judges” in 2018. If the constitutions of the member states guarantee the independence of the judiciary, is there also a need for special protection afforded by European Union law? What justification does such supranational protection have? And if ...
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Rolul Curții de Justiție al dialogului judecătorilor în consolidarea statului de drept în Europa
Numărul 3 Anul 2022
The article outlines the crucial role played by values of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary in the European Union. While the Court of Justice of the European Union respects the competence of the Member States in organizing their judicial system, national constitutional and legislative rules cannot challenge the unconditional duty to comply with the primacy of EU law and the values embodied by the former. By means...
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Tradițiile constituționale comune statelor membre: metoda dreptului comparat
Numărul 2 Anul 2022
The contribution focuses on the way in which the comparative law method is applied by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In so doing, it is argued that method of interpretation and the constitutional traditions common to the Member States go hand-in-hand.
The contribution is divided into two parts. First, the constitutional authority that enables the Court of Justice to engage in a comparative study of th...
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Proporționalitatea, principiu director care promovează efectivitatea dreptului Uniunii Europene și legitimitatea acțiunii Uniunii Europene
Numărul 1 Anul 2022
The present article deals with various expressions of proportionality in the legal order of the European Union (EU). The proportionality principle originally focused on justifications put forward by the Member States when they introduced or maintained restrictions to fundamental freedoms of the internal market. However, it quickly ‘spread’ to other situations falling within the scope of EU law. The article defines what the principle...
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Raporturi constituționale dintre ordini juridice și instanțe judecătorești în interiorul Uniunii Europene*
Numărul 4 Anul 2021
This contribution exposes some thoughts concerning the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) and the position of EU law in general, in light of the current challenges facing the European Union. The authority of the CJEU has been challenged in various Member States, as has the primacy of EU law, not only by politicians and the press, but also before and even by national courts, including certain constitutional c...
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Explorarea autonomiei ordinii juridice a Uniunii Europene*
Numărul 3 Anul 2021
Two different dynamics govern the autonomy of the European Union (EU) legal order. On the one hand, autonomy seeks to define what EU law is not, i.e. it is not ordinary international law. Positively, on the other, autonomy seeks to define what EU law is, i.e. a legal order that has the capacity to operate as a self-referential system of norms that is both coherent and complete. Yet the concept of autonomy of the EU legal order in no...
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Rolul Cartei UE în statele membre
Numărul 2 Anul 2021
The present article answers some questions regarding the impact and the role of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the “Charter”) in the legal orders of the Member States. To that end, it explores in three steps the way in which the Charter is applied in the Member States.
First, it explores the question of competences, by examining the way in which EU law a...
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