nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190923-232735-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190923s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190923-232735-0 doi eng 342 23 Bárd, Petra Author aut Luxemburg as the Last Resort - The Kúria’s Judgment on the Illegality of a Preliminary Reference to the ECJ Bárd, Petra Verfassungsblog 2019-09-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier A criminal proceeding has been suspended by a Hungarian justice of the Pest Central District Court to ask the European Court of Justice preliminary questions, inter alia, about his own judicial independence. Now, Hungary’s Supreme Court has stepped in and ruled that the reference was illegal, essentially arguing that preliminary references are not the fora to discuss such claims. In fact, however, this preliminary reference reveals that all other means to effectively challenge the rule of law backsliding in Hungary have failed. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 judicial independence rule of law crisis Ungarn Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/luxemburg-as-the-last-resort/ raw object