EU citizens’ rights versus the Member States’ right to withdraw from the Union

Scientific Conference (2017, November 18)

The protection of Human dignity in Luxembourg

in Becchi, Paolo; Mathis, Klaus (Eds.) Handbook of Human Dignity in Europe (2017)

The concept of human dignity is not enshrined in the Constitution of Luxembourg. It has entered the domestic legal order through international treaties and parliamentary acts since 1978. A draft of a new ... [more ▼]

The concept of human dignity is not enshrined in the Constitution of Luxembourg. It has entered the domestic legal order through international treaties and parliamentary acts since 1978. A draft of a new constitution, to be adopted in 2018, will procure constitutional value to human dignity in article 11. [less ▲]

The sudden eagerness to consult the luxemburgish people on constitutional change

in Contiades, Xenophon; Fotadiou, Alkmene (Eds.) Participatory Constitutional Change: The people as amenders of the Constitution (2016, October)

Recent examples of constitutional amendments in Iceland and Ireland and the current debates in Scotland and Catalonia regarding referendums on regional autonomy have stimulated a renewal in academic ... [more ▼]

Recent examples of constitutional amendments in Iceland and Ireland and the current debates in Scotland and Catalonia regarding referendums on regional autonomy have stimulated a renewal in academic research on the involvement of the people in constitution making and constitutional amendment including the question - raised recently in Switzerland – how to avoid that referendums bring about unlawful restrictions to fundamental rights. This raises a more general question of how to reconcile the basic principles of (direct) democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights. Such questions are also relevant for the legal situation in Luxembourg marked by the ongoing procedure of constitutional restatement, which was initiated in April 2009. The government decided indeed to submit several questions to a consultative referendum in 2015 before pursuing the parliamentary procedure and come to a final, decisive, referendum on the amendment proposal in 2016. This develop is part of a broader tendency to introduce, in Luxembourg and elsewhere, elements of direct democracy such as referendums, citizens’ initiatives and online petitions into political systems organized as representative democracies. The roundtable aims to identify and discuss the main procedural, legal and theoretical problems raised in general by popular consent in the field of constitutional change. [less ▲]

The UK reform package in view of Free movement, social and fundamental rights

Scientific Conference (2016, March 11)

Als krönender Abschluss des Grundrechtschutzes in der EU verlangt die Charta nach einer breiten und dezentralisierten Anwendung

in Masing, Johannes; Jestaedt, Matthias; Capitant, David (Eds.) Strukturfragen des Grundrechtsschutzes in Europa (2015)

Application of the EU Charter of fundamental rights to member states

La figure de droit constitutionnel de “l’État intégré”: le cas du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

in Mestre, Christian (Ed.) Europe(s), Droit(s) européen(s), Liber Amicorum en l'honneur du professeur Vlad Constantinesco (2015)

L'égalité dans la Constitution

Scientific Conference (2014, November 27)

En droit constitutionnel la notion d'égalité peut revêtir différentes significations. Selon l'adage "ius respicit aequitatem" ce principe fondamental, inhérent à toute Constitution, émane de la dignité ... [more ▼]

En droit constitutionnel la notion d'égalité peut revêtir différentes significations. Selon l'adage "ius respicit aequitatem" ce principe fondamental, inhérent à toute Constitution, émane de la dignité humaine et implique aussi bien l'égalité en droits que l'égalité devant la loi. Le panel s’intéressera aux problèmes auxquels se trouvent confrontés tant le Conseil d’Etat que le juge constitutionnel lorsqu’ils sont saisis d’une question d’égalité devant la loi. Déterminer les catégories de personnes et les situations comparables, et, en cas de comparabilité avérée, apprécier si la différenciation est rationnellement justifiée, proportionnée et adéquate au but poursuivi, n’est pas en effet une tâche aisée. D’autant plus que le droit européen et le droit comparé nous enseignent par ailleurs que le principe d’égalité ne veut pas seulement que des situations comparables soient traitées de la même manière mais exige aussi que des situations différentes soient traitées différemment [less ▲]

The figure of constitutional law of the "Integrated State": the case of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

in European Constitutional Law Review (2014), 10(1), 109-125

EU Member State status – Member statehood – The idea of an “Integrated State” – Impact of EU membership on the concepts and substance of national constitutional law – Europeanization of member state’s ... [more ▼]

EU Member State status – Member statehood – The idea of an “Integrated State” – Impact of EU membership on the concepts and substance of national constitutional law – Europeanization of member state’s constitutional law – European constitutional law understood as Europeanized national constitutional law – European functions of constitutional organs – How to protect fundamental rights in a European area characterized by the overlaying of legal sources – The concept of “higher law” within the national legal order – A Union of Constitutionally Integrated States [less ▲]

Des aides financières discriminatoires ? L’arrêt de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne dans l’affaire Elodie Giersch et autres contre Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

in Forum für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur in Luxemburg (2014), 337

L’accès des étudiants, enfants de travailleurs frontaliers, aux aides financières pour études supérieures - libre circulation des travailleurs - travailleurs frontaliers - avantages sociaux ... [more ▼]

L’accès des étudiants, enfants de travailleurs frontaliers, aux aides financières pour études supérieures - libre circulation des travailleurs - travailleurs frontaliers - avantages sociaux - discrimination indirecte - [less ▲]

Commentaire article 14 TUE (le Parlement européen)

in Dubos, Olivier (Ed.) Commentaire du traité sur l'Union européenne (2014)