Raportul dintre Constituţia României şi legislaţia UE (Constituţia României în dreptul UE şi dreptul UE în Constituţia României)

dr. ADRIAN SEVERIN

Prof. univ. - Universitatea "Titu Maiorescu" din Bucureşti

ABSTRACT

The EU is a union of states and citizens. The legal nature of this Union is disputable. However, most of the scholars admit that it works on federal bases; in the Brussels language called "the communitarian method".

If the EU is a federation, it is a sui generis federation of sovereign states. Those states have transferred to the European transnational institutions, they have established by their joint will, the power to exercise on their behalf, to their benefit and in their common interests some of their national competences. By doing this the respective states did not give up their sovereignty, but simply decided to exercise parts of it in common, for the sake of their common security. Likewise, they did not abrogate their Constitutions, but it was precisely because those...