Summary
Dieter Grimm: Europe yes - but what kind?
Regulation of European democracy
Dieter Grimm, one of the best experts in law in Germany, shows in brilliant legal discussions and studies that the root cause of the big problem of self-acceptance, which the European Union is struggling with, is largely overlooked. He sees the cause of the current situation in the separation of the executive and judicial bodies of the European Union (the Commission and the European Court of Justice) from the democratic processes in the member states and the Union itself. The root of this independence is found in the practice of the Court of Justice, which constitutionalizes European treaties. The author examines the causes of this problematic development and makes suggestions for its correction.
Dieter Grimm is a professor emeritus of public law at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a lecturer at the Yale Law School, in the United States of America. From 1987 to 1999, he was a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, and from 2001 to 2007, rector of the College of Science in Berlin. – Publisher K. H. Bek published his book Die Verfassung und die Politik. Einsprühe in Störfällen (2001).
The European Union has a big problem with its own acceptance, as well as with the lack of democracy at the level of the Union, but the causes of this are often sought on the wrong side. While many hope that this problem will be eliminated by expanding the powers of the European Parliament, Dieter Grimm shows that this hope is unfounded.
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