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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CC) has opened proceedings on the constitutionality of the Agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the presence of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine dated April 21, 2010, said the Department of Communications of the CC and legal monitoring.

A justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Justice Dr Sibylle Kessal-Wulf,  says the relations between the national constitutional organs must be influenced by mutual respect among the political class and the judiciary.   He says tensions have permeated the relations of politics on one hand and constitutional jurisprudence on the other due to critical decisions […]

The Second Senate of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine made a decision on the case on the constitutional complaint of Viacheslav Pleskach and recognized the prescriptions of Part 1 of Article 294, Part 6 of Article 383 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine as inconsistent with the Constitution of Ukraine.

Even a junior lawyer may wear a hijab, a German court has decided. And a female judge? Of course. People should be able to cope with that much freedom of religion, says Matthias Drobinski

In about two months Ohioans will decide on their next governor. But so far, Gov. Mike DeWine has refused to debate his Democratic challenger, former Dayton Mayo

Germany’s highest court has condemned ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel for having “excluded” the far-right party “from the circle of parties capable of forming coalitions and cooperating within the democratic spectrum” by criticising the election of a Thuringian prime minister with the votes of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

“Nowhere in the Treaty we find the idea that there should be one single European people or a single European nation. There is no idea to dissolve the nations or the peoples and with them the respective political organizations. However, the European integration is much more than merely organizing the cooperation of nation states.” – Professor Armin von Bogdandy pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor.

Las comisiones unidas de Gobernación y de Estudios Legislativos Segunda del Senado aprobaron el dictamen por el que se expide la Ley Federal de Revocación de Mandato.

Der Bundestag soll gesundgeschrumpft werden. Nur wie? Darüber wird seit Jahren gestritten. Eine Reform will die Opposition in Karlsruhe zu Fall bringen - und stößt dort auf offene Ohren.

KARLSRUHE (dpa-AFX) - Die Bundestagswahl am 26. September kann nach dem von Union und SPD neu beschlossenen Wahlrecht stattfinden. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht wies einen Eilantrag ab, mit dem die FDP-