Both the United States and the European Union must strengthen their respective legislative branches to end bureaucratic overreach and reflect the political will of their citizenry. The post below will outline some premises based on which this could—and should—happen. Introduction In both

Against the backdrop of recent uproar following two key Irish referenda regarding the country’s constitution earlier this year, this article aims to show that the Irish constitution set a process in motion that enabled the incremental liberalization of the law,

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Constitutional identity is a topic of great importance for modern constitutional democracy. However, one could argue that its legal conceptualization from the perspective of European integration is still insufficiently analyzed beyond the identification of constitutional and/or national identity through different

According to the estimations of the Hungarian Statistical Center, around 250,000 foreign persons are continuously present in Hungary in the year 2024. On the other hand, thousands of Hungarian citizens also leave their home country. Hungarians, therefore, have organized their

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The post deals with the most recent landmark case from the European Court of Human Rights that refocuses relevant discourse by creating human rights obligations for states in terms of decreasing the harmful effects of climate change. Climate change represents one