nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230427-084404-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230426s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230427-084404-0 doi eng 342 23 Perroud, Thomas Author aut A Conservative Constitutional Council Watching over a Conservative Constitution Perroud, Thomas Verfassungsblog 2023-04-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 14 April 2023, the French Constitutional Council handed down its decisions on the constitutionality of the controversial pension reform and on the referendum that was supposed to stop it. In substance, the decisions were met with little surprise. What is noteworthy about them, however, is something else: Both decisions are excellent indicators of the profoundly conservative nature of the French Constitution and of the judges watching over its observance. CC BY-SA 4.0 Conseil Constitutionnel Emmanuel Macron Pension Reform Referendum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-conservative-constitutional-council-watching-over-a-conservative-constitution/ raw object