Our working group warmly recommends the GlobalCit and the EUI CineClub special event dedicated to the topic of citizenship. The event will consist in an aperitivo, the screening of the film The Citizen (by Roland Vranik, Hungary, 2016, 109 min) and a Q&A with the film director and Arghavan Shekari, the lead actress. Tuesday, the […]
Ever since the 2010 parliamentary elections Hungary has set off on the journey to became an ‘illiberal’ member state of the EU, which does not comply with the shared values of rule of law and democracy, the ‘basic structure’ of Europe. The new government of Viktor Orbán from the very beginning has justified the non-compliance […]
On Wednesday, 2nd of November, the Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group at the European University Institute had the pleasure to organise a talk by Prof. Paul Blokker, Associate Professor/Jean Monnet Chair “European Political Sociology”, Faculty of Social Sciences/Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic. Prof. Blokker’s talk touched upon the notion of populist constitutionalism […]
The first Law Departmental Seminar at the European University Institute of this academic year took place on Wednesday, 19th of October. Professor Martin Scheinin (LAW, Professor of International Law and Human Rights) and the other participants commented on the paper “Second-grade Constitutionalism? Hungary and Poland: How the EU Can and Should Cope With Illiberal Member […]
by Gábor Halmai, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the EUI On Sunday, 2 October, Hungarian voters went to the polls to answer one referendum question: “Do you want to allow the European Union to mandate the relocation of non-Hungarian citizens to Hungary without the approval of the National Assembly?” Although 92 % of those […]