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Ways to Frame the European Rule of Law: Rechtsgemeinschaft, Trust, Revolution, and Kantian Peace

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Armin von Bogdandy
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Conceptualising the European rule of law-value – A critique of the concept of European legal community – A conceptualisation of trust for a fresh understanding of the rule of law-value – Trust research in the social sciences – The trustworthiness of the European rule of law in light of calls for breaking up the current order

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European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 675 - 699
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Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor of Public Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. Many thanks to the editors of EuConst for inspiring critique as well as to the Dienstagsrunde, in particular Kanad Bagchi, Laura Hering, Giacomo Rugge and Dimitri Spieker. Translated by Sandra H. Lustig and edited by Matthew G. Harris. An earlier German version has been published as ‘Jenseits der Rechtsgemeinschaft – Begriffsarbeit in der europäischen Sinn- und Rechtsstaatlichkeitskrise’, 52 Europarecht (2017) p. 487.

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38 Mayer, supra n. 10, p. 432. It seems that the term ‘Community’ (Gemeinschaft) is due to Carl Friedrich Ophüls. See Ophüls, C.F., ‘Zwischen Völkerrecht und staatlichem Recht. Grundfragen des europäischen Rechts’, 4 Juristen-Jahrbuch (1963/64) p. 137 at p. 154Google Scholar; Hallstein, W., ‘Zu den Grundlagen und Verfassungsprinzipien der Europäischen Gemeinschaft’, in W. Hallstein/ H.-J. Schlochauer (eds.), Zur Integration Europas. Festschrift für Carl Friedrich Ophüls (Karlsruhe 1965) p. 1Google Scholar.

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52 Cf, for example, The Guardian, ‘Crisis for Europe as trust hits record low’, 24 April 2013, as well as the president of the Federal Republic of Germany, J. Gauck, Speech on the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate of Maastricht University on 7 February 2017. See also J. Peet, ‘Creaking at 60: The Future of the European Union’, The Economist, 25 March 2017, p. 3 ff; G. Nonnenmacher, ‘Europas letzte Chance?’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Woche, 24 March 2017, p. 17.

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54 ECJ (Full Court) 18 December 2014, Opinion 2/13, margin number 191; the Court emphasised the importance of that principle already in ECJ (Grand Chamber) 21 December 2011, Cases C-411/10 and C-493/10, N.S., margin number 83: ‘At issue here is the raison d’être of the European Union and the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice and, in particular, the Common European Asylum System, based on mutual confidence and a presumption of compliance, by other Member States, with European Union law and, in particular, fundamental rights’; see further earlier judgments relying on a practically unrestricted principle of mutual trust, ECJ 26 June 2007, Case C-305/05, Advocaten vor de Wereld; ECJ 29 January 2013, Case C-396/11, Radu; ECJ 26 February 2013, Case C-399/11, Melloni.

55 ECJ (Grand Chamber) 5 April 2016, Cases C-404/15 and C-659/15 PPU, Aranyosi and Căldăraru, margin number 78; ECJ (Grand Chamber) 6 September 2016, Case C-182/15, Petruhhin; ECJ 1 June 2016, Case C-241/15, Bob-Dogi; ECJ 24 May 2016, Case C-108/16 PPU, Dworzecki. Cf also Lenaerts, K., ‘La vie après l´avis: Exploring the principle of mutual (yet not blind) trust’, 54 CMLRev (2017) p. 805 at p. 811Google Scholar; Lenaerts, K., ‘Keynote Speech – The Court of Justice in an Uncertain World’, in G. Bándi, P. Darák and K. Debisso (eds.), Speeches and Presentations from XXVII FIDE Congress (Wolters Kluwer 2016) p. 58 ffGoogle Scholar; for a critique see Nettesheim, M., ‘Überdehnt der EuGH den Grundsatz des gegenseitigen Vertrauens?’, 20 EUZ (2018) p. 4Google Scholar.

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84 Cf, for example, Snyder, supra n. 33.

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86 Cf, for example, Bundesverfassungsgericht 15 December 2015, Case 2 BvR 2735/14, ECLI:DE:BVerfG:2015:rs20151215.2bvr273514. Tellingly, its test is called identity control (Identitätskontrolle), which conveys an idea of how essential the interests that this test is meant to protect are.

87 This section is based on von Bogdandy and Ioannidis, supra n. 59.

88 Romano, Seminal S., ‘Diritto (funzione del)’ Law (fragments of), in S. Romano (ed.), Frammenti di un dizionario giuridico Fragments of a Legal Dictionary (Giuffré 1953) p. 76 at p. 81Google Scholar; Luhmann, N., Das Recht der Gesellschaft (Suhrkamp 1993) p. 150–153Google Scholar.

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93 Making this point against the trust approach, see Schorkopf, supra n. 82, p. 162.

94 In Latin: Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus; on this see Liebs, D., ‘Das Rechtssprichwort Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus’, 70 Juristenzeitung (2015) p. 138CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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98 This will be identified as a narrow or thin concept of the rule of law. Many European institutions are pushing for a more substantive or thicker one, the value of which is not to be discussed here. For an example, see the Commission’s EU framework to strengthen the rule of law (supra n. 73) p. 4, and Annex I.

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