nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201019-233346-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201019s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201019-233346-0 doi eng 342 23 Tuchtfeld, Erik Author aut (orcid)0009-0000-6830-8800 (DE-588)1190605120 Towards a European Court of Fundamental Rights - How the European Court of Justice Becomes the Last Instance of Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Europe Tuchtfeld, Erik Verfassungsblog 2020-10-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With its judgments on bulk data retention issued at the beginning of this month, the European Court of Justice has entitled itself to examine virtually all surveillance measures in the digital sphere. In doing so, it has once more clarified its positioning as the decisive Fundamental Rights Court in Europe. In the midst of the ultra vires-storm caused by the PSPP-judgement of the Bundesverfassungsgericht – and questions arising with regard to German Legal Hegemony in Europe – a true shift of power to the ECJ can be spotted which is, surprisingly, supported by the national constitutional courts. CC BY-SA 4.0 Anwendungsvorrang ECJ European Charter of Fundamental Rights European Court of Human Rights Melloni National Security PSPP Vorratsdatenspeicherung Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/towards-a-european-court-of-fundamental-rights/ raw object