Schutz vor einer Politik durch Köpfe
Das BVerfG bleibt seiner restriktiven Rechtsprechung zum politischen Beamten treu. Die Kritik an dem Beschluss schießt aus allen Rohren – aber mit Platzpatronen. Die Entscheidung geht den überfälligen Schritt, einer Politik durch Köpfe im gesetzesvollziehenden Teil der Exekutive die Grenzen aufzuzeigen. Amtscourage, nicht politische Konformität, ist das Leitbild des Personals der Republik.
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More Security for the Security Apparatus
How to protect Thuringia's police and office for the protection of the constitution from an authoritarian-populist takeover
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Qatargate: A Missed Opportunity to Reform the Union
When the news broke about the arrest of EU Parliament’s Vice-President Eva Kaili in flagrant offence for corruption and money laundering, many observers instantly qualified Qatargate as the largest and the most damaging scandal affecting the European integration process since its inception. Since then, this prediction proves truer day by day, revelation after revelation. Yet, despite unprecedented media coverage and a shocked public, this scandal has not yet generated within the EU and national political class a good enough response to mitigate its damaging effects. EU leaders can hardly afford to miss this unique opportunity to prepare a convincing answer to the question many citizens will soon be asking: Why vote in the next EU Parliament’s election in 2024?
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Censuring von der Leyen’s Capitulation on the Rule of Law
The spectre of a motion of censure is looming over the von der Leyen Commission. While this rather extraordinary, perhaps desperate, measure appears unlikely to attain the required number of signatures to be tabled – and even less likely to be adopted by the European Parliament –, this initiative deserves some scrutiny. Perhaps even some praise by those who still believe in the primacy of law over power.
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The Court of Justice of the EU goes (almost) public
While the broadcasting of the delivery does not add much value (the texts are generally made available online at the time of their live reading in Luxembourg) to its declared goal of facilitating “the public’s access to its judicial activity”, that of the public hearings appears a major game-changer in the Court’s stance vis-à-vis the public-at-large. And that despite the many precautions accompanying the introduction of such a major rehaul of the Court’s publicity policy regarding its hearings,
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