European Law Network

With less than two days to go before the Lisbon summit and the European Council we thought it’d be interesting to present several of the works that have been written on the Reform Treaty. (This list is by no means exhaustive).

Following the introduction of an unprecedented lustration law (of October 18th 2006) last march, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal declared on Friday a dozen articles of the mentioned statue unconstitutional. This decision is a major setback for the government and illustrates the virtues of the a posteriori control of constitutionality. The judgment K 2/07 should be soon […]

On April 19th, 2007, the Romanian Parliament (RO, EN, FR) voted in favour of Romanian President Traian Basescu’s removal from office, based on accusations of unconstitutional conduct. The president was accused of overstepping his constitutional prerogatives by influencing governmental policy instead of maintaining a neutral, “referee-like” role. The impeachment procedure is a novelty in the […]

Par Cécile FOUQUET, Graduate student Sciences Po Paris

Réviser une constitution consiste à modifier son contenu en procédant à l’adoption d’une loi constitutionnelle, selon les dispositions prévues par la constitution en vigueur. La révision doit être entourée de précautions destinées à souligner l’aspect fondamental du pacte constitutionnel. On distingue pouvoir originaire de rédaction et pouvoir dérivé […]