nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201008-113323-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201008s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201008-113323-0 doi eng 342 23 Lenaerts, Koen Author aut No Member State is More Equal than Others The Primacy of EU law and the Principle of the Equality of the Member States before the Treaties Lenaerts, Koen Verfassungsblog 2020-10-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In my view, three direct implications flow from the principle of ‘equality of the Member States before the Treaties’. First, the uniform interpretation and application of EU law are key for guaranteeing that equality. Second, the uniform interpretation of EU law needs to be ensured by one court and one court only, i.e. the Court of Justice. Third and last, the principle of primacy underpins the uniform interpretation and application of EU law. That law – as interpreted by the Court of Justice – is ‘the supreme law of the land’ as primacy (Anwendungsvorrang) guarantees that normative conflicts between EU law and national law are resolved in the same fashion. Primacy thus guarantees that both the Member States and their peoples are equal before the law. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Hegemony Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/no-member-state-is-more-equal-than-others/ raw object