Supremacy and Judicial Hierarchy in Luxembourg and Karlsruhe - PDU
As European integration has grown deeper, the matters decided at the
European level have increasingly acquired a vital constitutional and
economic dimension.It is only natural that the relationship between
European and national legal systems has shaped debates on the European
Union from its early days: whether or not European legislation takes
precedence over national law essentially determines what the EU can and
cannot do. If national law is allowed to override European rules, both
the effectiveness and the uniform application of European law throughout
the EU are at stake. This explains why the Court of Justice of the
European Union (CJEU) has always insisted that EU law reigns supreme.
The issue is, however, far from conclusively resolved. Read more about
the topic on www.democraticunion.eu
