What Went Wrong and What Could be Done?
The question should perhaps be “what went right?”. I argue that for more than 30 years, as a result of a key provision in the Constitution, and the work of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (CCRF) there were many positive changes to Russian law and practice. These advances were only possible as a result of Russia’s membership of the Council of Europe and ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). But that chapter in Russia’s constitutional history has been closed.
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Integration as Disintegration
50 years after accession of Ireland and the UK to the EEC and seven years after the disastrous Brexit referendum, Ireland still sits pretty in the EU, but the UK and its Constitution have been called into possibly fatal doubt, especially as regards their integrative capacity, or continuing ability to bind distinct political classes and the nations of the Union to one another. Writing in early 2023, amidst the ruins of a Brexit reality, if not the end of the Brexit delusion, this short commentary foresees – possibly foolishly – a radical future of independent nations within a loose ‘Confederation of the Isles’, wherein Ireland might share some (symbolic) competences with Scotland, England and Wales, enabling a peaceful a prosperous coexistence within the North-western European archipelago.
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Recht reicht nicht
Das Argument für die rechtlich-legitimierte Einreise von Ortskräften öffnet die Falle, zwischen verdienenden und nicht-verdienenden Migrant*innen zu unterscheiden. Insbesondere riskiert es, die Bevorteilung und Privilegierung jener Menschen zu re-inskribieren, die näher an den militärischen, intervenierenden Besatzungskräften und an ‚whiteness‘ situiert sind. Es gilt somit zu reflektieren, inwiefern eine Argumentation, die sich auf Ortskräfte konzentriert, Logiken des Grenzregimes reproduziert.
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