Tag: Constitutional
Strike against the Law: Poland’s Constitutional Court vs. Europe – Opinion
The judgment of the Polish Constitutional Court has finally arrived – and it turns out as expected: Poland’s constitution allegedly stands above several articles of the EU treaties that oblige…
Polish Constitutional Court: EU law partly incompatible with the constitution
Status: 07.10.2021 8:19 p.m. According to the Polish Constitutional Court, some EU laws violate the Polish Constitution. The ruling could exacerbate the dispute over the Polish judicial reform between Warsaw…
In Poland, the constitutional court finds part of the European treaties incompatible with the Constitution
The Polish Constitutional Court in Warsaw, in December 2017. CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI / AP The Polish constitutional court ruled on Thursday, October 7 that certain articles of European treaties are incompatible…
Constitutional Protection Report: Significantly more right-wing extremists in Saxony
Right-wing extremism remains a social problem in Saxony. Like from the current report for the protection of the constitution shows, the number of right-wing extremists rose to 4,800 in the…
70 years of the Federal Constitutional Court: the last instance
As of: 09/28/2021 5:04 a.m. “I’m going to Karlsruhe” has become a household phrase over the decades. When the Federal Constitutional Court started its work 70 years ago, it was…
Wind power: constitutional complaint against the 10H rule – Bavaria
Two Bavarian SPD politicians want to overturn the controversial Bavarian minimum distance rule for wind turbines before the Federal Constitutional Court: The Bundestag candidates Seija Knorr-Köning from Munich and Carolin…
Federal Constitutional Court – interest rate ruling costs less than one billion euros – economy
According to the constitutional court ruling, the Federal Ministry of Finance expects excessive interest on additional tax claims with charges of well below one billion euros. A spokesman for the…
Federal Constitutional Court: Why the default interest is unconstitutional – economy
The tax offices have to lower their interest on back tax claims. “Given the low interest rate phase since 2014, the monthly interest rate of 0.5 percent is clearly unconstitutional,”…
Federal Constitutional Court: Tax interest unconstitutional from 2014 – economy
The high tax rates of six percent per year are unconstitutional in view of the ongoing low interest rate phase since 2014. This applies to interest on back tax payments…
The Constitutional Council rejects the appeal of the deputies, without ruling on the merits
The Constitutional Council on Friday largely dismissed an appeal lodged by deputies concerning the climate-resilience law, deemed insufficient against climate change, because their grievances were “excessively general”, but without commenting…