A long read on national competences and the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social in the @euconst.bsky.social I tried to make sense of and refute claims that the Court must respect national competences when interpreting substantive EU law (many will be reminded of the “retained powers” formula…).

Good to see @europarl.europa.eu refer to principle of solidarity in its resolution on Hungary calling for triggering of Art. 7(2) TEU. With @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein, we argued that new Art. 7 procedure should be initiated against HU based on breaches of solidarity in CFSP

The EU’s 19th sanctions package against Russia could be blocked by Hungary & Slovakia. Max Planck scholars Armin von Bogdandy & Dimitri Spieker explore legal avenues on how to overcome the vetoes & break the deadlock. www.mpg.de/25538859/eu-... @mpil.de @dimitrispieker.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that @steffenmau.bsky.social, one of Germany’s leading sociologists, has been appointed Director at our Institute. He will lead a new Department on Inequality, Transformation & Conflict, addressing pressing societal challenges via cutting-edge social science research.

Recently, Armin von Bogdandy and @dimitrispieker.bsky.social put forward a proposal on how to overcome the Hungarian veto, followed by a sharp response from Martijn van den Brink and Mark Dawson. Do Dawson and van den Brink’s objections convince? A rejoinder: verfassungsblog.de/overcoming-o...

For those who work in EU law, this debate is vital to the future of the Union. Can the EU survive with a dictatorship in its midst, using its veto on matters existential to the EU? Here are creative ways around the veto, honoring the rule of law.

For @sarahganty.bsky.social & I it was an Article 2 TEU #pride‼️ Respect the values, Orbán‼️🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈Hungary is too beautiful and loving to flush it down the drain with illegal nonesense‼️ @ilgaeurope.bsky.social @ceudeminst.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social

Wow, this would be a huge, and highly necessary step! 25 years after AG Jacob’s opinion in UPA, AG Emiliou gives overturning Plaumann another try.

Hungary is threatening to obstruct the extension of EU sanctions against Russia. A lot is at stake, including Europe's security. ARMIN VON BOGDANDY & LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER (@mpil.de) with a new proposal on how to overcome Hungary's veto: verfassungsblog.de/hungarian-ve...

📢 Join our #StrategicLitigation webinar on 12 June at 12:30 CEST! We'll unpack the European Commission’s infringement case against Hungary & its impact on future #LGBTI rights in the EU. 🎙 With Háttér Society, legal experts & more. 🔗 Register now www.ilga-europe.org/news/what-th...

SCRIPTS is celebrating! 🎉 We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy! We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0! #Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy

📢 Out now: Is EU law over-constitutionalised? Dieter Grimm thinks so. In his latest article, @dimitrispieker.bsky.social challenges that view, arguing that the Treaties’ rigidity is overestimated and that judicial responsiveness and legislative activity are underestimated. doi.org/10.1017/glj....

Thanks to @verfassungsblog.de for publishing my take on Commission v Malta. “Golden passports” violate the value of solidarity!

#ECJ: The Maltese investor citizenship scheme is contrary to #EULaw #EUCitizenship golden #passports 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Maltas Verkauf von Staatsbürgerschaften ist illegal#EuGH#Malta

In @faznet.bsky.social beschwören Ulrich Karpenstein und ich die neue Bundesregierung, sich für einen 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙯𝙪𝙜 𝙐𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙪𝙛 𝙀𝙐-𝙀𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚 Stark zu machen! 👉 www.faz.net/einspruch/wa...

🚨📢Come work with us! We at Humboldt University’s law faculty have an amazing Easter present for all EU law aficionados! The DFG Research Training Group DynamInt offers 12 fully funded PhD positions in the area of European law starting from October 2025! www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp...

Just use Art. 7(2) TEU and strip Hungary of its voting rights in the Council! There is momentum for this step as I argue here: verfassungsblog.de/tackling-orb...

On @verfassungsblog.de I call for tackling the Union's "Orban Problem" NOW! 📣 The momentum has never been better! The @ec.europa.eu should bring a new proposal under Art. 7(2) TEU, which couples restraint and boldness.

Land does not vote. Eine Karte wie zu Beginn der Animation ist seit der Bundestagswahl oft zu sehen gewesen. Sie zeigt die Parteizugehörigkeit der Wahlkreissieger nach Erststimmen. Wir sehen: ziemlich viel AfD-Blau. 🧵 #Bundestagswahl 📊

🇪🇺 In the new #ZaöRV’s Comment: @dimitrispieker.bsky.social argues why protecting #EU values does not require treaty change. Read his take #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/... #EUlaw #RuleOfLaw #HJIL

Publication alert! New comment in @mpil.de's ZaöRV (open access)! 🎓📚 The piece tackles the question of whether we should aim at changing the EU Treaties to better protect EU values. My take: no! We should trust the Treaties! Read my text open access here: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...

Ist die EU ein Freiheitsraum für trans* Menschen? Mehr dazu im Beitrag von @dimitrispieker.bsky.social in der Europäischen Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht!

"Queer Theory" in der traditionsreichen EuZW?! Das geht?! Und wie! 👉 Luke Dimitrios Spieker, Die Europäische Union: ein Freiheitsraum für trans* Menschen?, EuZW 2025, 112-124 👉 Zum Text: beck-online.beck.de/Dokument?vpa... Bei Interesse am Beitrag, gerne eine Nachricht an mich!

📢 Out now: Das Studienbuch „Unionsverfassungsrecht. Eine Neubestimmung anhand der Grundlagen im EU-Vertrag“, herausgegeben von Jürgen Bast und Armin von Bogdandy ist jetzt Open Access verfügbar! 📖🇪🇺 🔗 Zur Veröffentlichug: doi.org/10.5771/9783... #EURecht #MPIL #OpenAccess

Mit Impulsen von:   Matthias Ruffert (@humboldtuni.bsky.social), Mark Dawson (@delorsberlin.bsky.social @thehertieschool.bsky.social), Frank Schorkopf (@unigoettingen.bsky.social)  Roya Sangi (Redeker Sellner Dahs), Kirsten Scholl (@bmwk.de) und  Antje Wiener (@uni-hamburg.de)

Tolles Event am 20. Februar an der @humboldtuni.bsky.social mit wunderbaren Gästen! Anmelden bei [email protected]!

Insbesondere in Zeiten, in denen europäische Rechtsstaatlichkeit auch in Deutschland ins Wanken gerät, ist dieses Studienbuch zum Unionsverfassungsrecht relevant und wichtig!

[16.10.00] In der Union wird darüber gestritten, ob die Einwanderung Thema des Bundestagswahlkampfes 2002 werden soll. CDU-Chefin Merkel äußert sich zurückhaltend gegenüber einem entsprechenden Vorstoß vom Fraktionsvorsitzenden Merz.

Wahnsinn, was Hans-Jürgen Papier da von sich gibt… dass die CDU diese Einschätzung für bare Münze nimmt ist nicht zu fassen. Wirklich schockierend!

"Scheiss-Gerichte" - so reden CDUler jetzt über den Rechtsstaat. Es geht um viel mehr als die Migration. Das sollte allen klar sein. www.zeit.de/2025/05/asyl...

Hot off the press! Ferdinand Weber and I enter the academic ring in the “Golden Passport” affair. In our paper "Bonds without belonging?", published in the Yearbook of European Law, we explore, analyse, and discuss ways to justify a genuine link in international and EU law. 👉 tinyurl.com/46t3z2w7

Finally…

Very much looking forward to this Council Presidency under the new Polish government! But where is the rule of law among its priorities?!

3… 2.. 1… The new EU Council Presidency starts now! In the next six months, Poland will focus on: ⬜defence and security 🟥people and border protection ⬜resistance to disinformation 🟥business freedom ⬜energy 🟥agriculture ⬜health For a safe and prosperous Europe for future generations. poland25.eu

“It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker … and press pundit and grant bidder and editor and look after your own wellbeing.”

Here is where EU funds to Hungary stand right now. Around €19B is currently blocked & Hungary is set to lose more than €1B permanently from the pot suspended under the conditionality mechanism by year's end www.politico.eu/article/hung...

Aber Hauptsache Anwohnerparken ist ca. 60 mal günstiger als das Jahresticket für den ÖPNV 🤷‍♂️

Nominations for the 2025 UACES Best Book Prize & Best PhD Thesis Prize close this Sunday, 1 December 2024! 📚 Books published in 2024. ✍️ Theses passed in 2024. 💸 £100 prize + invitation to the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025 in Liverpool. Submit now: www.uaces.org/awards. #UACES #Awards

Poland’s government has approved plans to add sexual orientation, gender, age and disability to the categories covered by Poland’s hate crime laws. Those guilty of insulting or inciting hatred against such groups could be jailed for up to three years.

European Society Strikes Back 🇪🇺💥 The EU Commission launches the largest human rights battle in history against Hungary's anti-LGBTIQ law. LENA KAISER, ANDREAS KNECHT, and LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER on the justiciability of Art. 2TEU: verfassungsblog.de/european-soc...

Surprise! 😉 “Staatsrechtslehre” strikes back! Love the certainty with which German scholars claim that “aus rein dogmatischer Sicht … ist klar, dass eine anwendungsbereichsunabhängige Durchsetzung des Art. 2 EUV nur im Verfahren des Art. 7 EUV möglich ist”. 🤓 Well… 👉 academic.oup.com/book/46679/c...

Lena Kaiser, Andreas Knecht and I watched the “mega hearing” in COM v HUN at the CJEU! 🍿📺 The historical case centres on the justiciability of the Union’s values in Art. 2 TEU! 16 Member States supported the Commission. What they pleaded? And what that means? 👉 verfassungsblog.de/european-soc...

European legal history in the making. 👇

Now Germany The EU’s founding member, and by some distance its most powerful state, takes the floor — the room falls extra silent The German agent speaks, significantly, on the most important issue: Article 2 TEU It is justiciable, it can be invoked in a freestanding fashion Highly significant!

The essential starter pack

‼️The EU Court of Justice will hear the case of the Hungarian #Klubrádió brought by the @ec.europa.eu against the refusal of its right to use the radio spectrum, #Nepszava writes

Food for thought zur Europawahll: #MPILs @dimitrispieker.bsky.social mit Patrick Cramer über die Wiederherstellung demokratischer Rechtsstaatlichkeit in #Polen. Wie kann die EU helfen? Was können wir für Deutschland und den Schutz des #BVerfG daraus lernen? Jetzt ansehen: www.mpg.de/21968947/dem...

Publication alert! Armin von Bogdandy und ich äußern uns in der @faznet.bsky.social dazu, wie Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Polen unter einer neuen Regierung wiederhergestellt werden kann. Es sind eher nachdenkliche Töne - denn einfach wird's nicht. @mpil.de www.faz.net/einspruch/po...

Recommended reading : "Transition 2.0. Re-establishing Constitutional Democracy in EU Member States" (Michal Bobek, Adam Bodnar, Armin von Bogdandy, Pál Sonnevend, eds), #OpenAcces @NomosVerlag #Poland