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63 Hung. J. Legal Stud. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/ajur63 and id is 1 raw text is: Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies 63 (2022) 1, 1-2 DOI: 10.1556/2052.2022.00200 mD2 mD6 Tradition, Constitution, Identity and European Integration EDITORIAL © 2022 Akad6miai Kiad6, Budapest On 23-24 September 2021 the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences and the French Institute, supported by the French and the Dutch Embassies in Hungary, organised an international conference entitled Tradition, Constitution and European Integration on the concept and the practice of protecting European constitutional identities. The 27 Member States of the European Union each have their own constitutions or basic laws. In addition to that, the EU is governed by founding treaties of constitutional value. The national and the European legal orders interact constantly and, apart from developing the domestic legal systems, they form a complex, integrated legal system as well. Because of their particularities (historic, geographic, political, linguistic, etc.), States (just like individuals) have their own unique identities. The essential elements of these identities are protected in the constitution of each State, explicitly or implicitly, codified or elaborated by constitutional courts. This is the so called Constitutional Identity, which is in the focus of heated scholarly discussions with regard to its content and the related competence and procedural issues. The Court of Justice of the EU is responsible for harmonising and ensuring the effective enforcement of EU law in all the Member States (in compliance with the principle of supremacy) in harmony with the national constitutional traditions. The EU must respect the constitutional identities of the Member States, while the EU must also build its own community identity, inspired by its values (nominally shared by the Member States), which also prevail both in the founding treaties and in each and every Member State constitutions. This idea is expected to be present in the interpretation practice of the Court of Justice of the European Union. What is Constitutional Identity in the EU law and in the Member States' constitutional orders? How do these concepts relate to each other? What is the relationship between EU law and the individual national constitutional traditions? What are the perspectives of the different Member States and of the EU as a whole? What does the dialogue between CJEU and the national constitutional courts entail? Building on and encouraging the in-depth study of the concept of Constitutional Identity while also analysing the perspectives of the Member States and the EU, the conference brought together Hungarian, French, Dutch, German and Polish experts. Constitutional identity can only ever be a meaningful legal concept if it is based in an equal measure on knowledge about legal traditions, domestic law and of EU integration based on the rule of law. The special issue of the Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies - Acta Juridica Hungarica 2022/1 and 2022/2 will further contribute to this knowledge by publishing the articles of the most acknowledged scholars of this field.

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