nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/8dcee174b6e28c9d DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260102s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/8dcee174b6e28c9d doi eng 342 23 Hilpold, Peter Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9947-3972 When National Courts Say No - Gondert v. Germany and the Duty to Give Reasons Hilpold, Peter Verfassungsblog 2026-01-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 16 December 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in Gondert v. Germany. At the centre of the dispute lies the duty to give reasons. In the triangular relationship between EU law, the ECHR, and national legal orders, the duty to state reasons plays a catalytic role: without adequate reasons, the much-cited “dialogue between courts” cannot operate as genuine dialogue. Gondert improves matters to some extent, but it cannot by itself remedy the deeper structural weaknesses that shape how that dialogue functions. CC BY-SA 4.0 CJEU duty to give reasons ECtHR FCC Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/gondert-v-germany-ecthr-judgment/ raw object