nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230710-231149-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230710s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230710-231149-0 doi eng 342 23 Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz Author aut Why Europe Must Never Forget about the Polish Constitutional Court - On the Importance of European Institutional Memory Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz Verfassungsblog 2023-07-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier  In 2023, we should have been celebrating the 41st anniversary of the establishment of Polish Constitutional Court. “Should” is used advisedly here because as is well known Poland no longer has a constitutional court. Undoubtedly, the technical question of how to rebuild the Court is important, yet we should also understand why its rebuild must be the first order of the day after the present dark days of total capture. I argue, in this respect, that the EU would do well to remember the central role constitutional courts have played in the particular form of constitutionalism that emerged in the aftermath of Europe’s experience with totalitarianism, and the laudable way in which the Polish Constitutional Court took up this task. CC BY-SA 4.0 European Union Polish Constitutional Court rule of law crisis Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/why-europe-must-never-forget-about-the-polish-constitutional-court/ raw object