nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200429-133619-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200429s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200429-133619-0 doi eng 342 23 Stoppioni, Edoardo Author aut The Protection of Health Must Take Precedence: Testing the Constitutional State of Crisis in Luxembourg Stoppioni, Edoardo Verfassungsblog 2020-04-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In times of neoliberalism, it is healthy hearing the Prime Minister Xavier Bettel of Luxembourg say that “the protection of health and life takes precedence over economic interests”. But this declaration came in the context of the recourse to extraordinary emergency powers, on the day before the Government declared the “state of crisis” to face the Coronavirus situation. In Luxembourg, this tool to regulate emergencies has progressively found its path into the Constitution while elsewhere in Europe philosophers or public law professors argued that a constitutional state of emergency entails the paradox of “constitutionalising the absence of constitution”. It is therefore important to reflect on the effects of the conjugation of these two discourses into the sanitary crisis and their effect on democracy and human rights protection. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 COVID 19 emergency powers Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-protection-of-health-must-take-precedence-testing-the-constitutional-state-of-crisis-in-luxembourg/ raw object