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...

This paper, on the Bundesverfassungsgericht’s Weiss judgment of 5th May 2020, highlights three implications of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling and its constitutional significance with implications for the wider context of Member States’ cooperation in the EU and European integration as a whole. We explain the relevant background of the judgment and argue that the specific issue created by the judgment might ...