Luxemburg as the Last Resort The Kúria’s Judgment on the Illegality of a Preliminary Reference to the ECJ Bárd, Petra Author aut Text xx# 2019 Verfassungsblog 2019-09-23 eng
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 A criminal proceeding has been suspended by a Hungarian justice of the Pest Central District Court to ask the European Court of Justice preliminary questions, inter alia, about his own judicial independence. Now, Hungary’s Supreme Court has stepped in and ruled that the reference was illegal, essentially arguing that preliminary references are not the fora to discuss such claims. In fact, however, this preliminary reference reveals that all other means to effectively challenge the rule of law backsliding in Hungary have failed. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Bárd, Petra funded by the government judicial independence rule of law crisis Ungarn 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/luxemburg-as-the-last-resort/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20190923-232735-0 190923 10.17176/20190923-232735-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)