No Member State is More Equal than Others - The Primacy of EU law and the Principle of the Equality of the Member States before the Treaties

No Member State is More Equal than Others - The Primacy of EU law and the Principle of the Equality of the Member States before the Treaties Lenaerts, Koen Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-10-08 eng In my view, three direct implications flow from the principle of ‘equality of the Member States before the Treaties’. First, the uniform interpretation and application of EU law are key for guaranteeing that equality. Second, the uniform interpretation of EU law needs to be ensured by one court and one court only, i.e. the Court of Justice. Third and last, the principle of primacy underpins the uniform interpretation and application of EU law. That law – as interpreted by the Court of Justice – is ‘the supreme law of the land’ as primacy (Anwendungsvorrang) guarantees that normative conflicts between EU law and national law are resolved in the same fashion. Primacy thus guarantees that both the Member States and their peoples are equal before the law. CC BY-SA 4.0 Lenaerts, Koen Hegemony 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/no-member-state-is-more-equal-than-others/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20201008-113323-0 201008 10.17176/20201008-113323-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)