Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Czech Supreme Court asked to fast track Lisbon's Constittional Review

The report is linked here, with the main points as follows: The Czech Senate has proposed that the US assesses six points of the treaty, including the possibility of the Council of the EU's decision making method being changed from an unanimous to a majority vote, which would strip member states of their right to veto, the way of the recognition of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the Czech Republic's legal obligation to observe it. "Is this dimension of parliamentary democracy sufficient, in view of the EU's character as a community of states (not a federal state)?" the senators ask the US in their request. They also ask whether the treaty violates the article of the Czech Constitution saying that legislative power in the Czech Republic is held by parliament. We have seen, as elsewhere in Europe, that there are few parliamentarians with democratic principle, are there then Judges in the Czech Republic prepared to defend their constitutional law?

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