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Revisiting Europe’s ‘law-politics imbalance’

  • The aim of this chapter is to consider whether accusations of judicial activism towards the European Courts are rooted not in the activity of the CJEU per se but rather a wider ‘imbalance’ between law and politics in the present-day EU. Revisiting an earlier chapter, the chapter considers three sources of such an imbalance: the gap between the jurisdiction of the CJEU and the EU’s legislative competence; judicial reasoning at the EU level; and the imbalance in the EU between market and non-market objectives. While the chapter argues that the EU retains such an imbalance, recent developments, particularly the increasing dynamism of the EU legislature, have significantly narrowed the gap between the EU’s political and legal capacities in the last decade. As the chapter will conclude, the EU carries a less institutionally ‘lonely’ Court than in the past, providing the Union’s judiciary with greater leverage to temper activist claims.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Mark DawsonORCiD
Editor(s):Mark Dawson, Bruno de Witte, Elise Muir
Parent Title (English):Revisiting Judicial Politics in the European Union
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication year:2024
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:17
Last Page:33
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035313518.00007
ISBN:9781035313501
Release Date:2024/04/26
AY 23/24:AY 23/24
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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