Dimitri Spieker
@dimitrispieker.bsky.social
Postdoc at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & Senior Research Fellow @mpil.de | Dr. iur. | Author of “EU Values Before the Court of Justice” (OUP) | Passionate about EU, Constitutional and Public Law | 🇩🇪🇬🇷🇪🇺 Profile: https://tinyurl.com/3cf64jtd
Is the justiciability of Article 2 TEU an act of self-empowerment by the Court? LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER argues that its activation is rather the result of a collective interpretation by the European society. verfassungsblog.de/a-european-s... @mpil.de
Man könnte auch sagen: Super, dass viele Teil der Gesellschaft sein wollen. Aber nein, nur mehr Abschottung ist die Antwort. "Der CDU-Politiker Alexander Throm hat nach dem sich abzeichnenden Höchststand bei Einbürgerungen in 🇩🇪 rechtliche Verschärfungen gefordert." www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Einbürgerung: Unionspolitiker wollen Einbürgerungsregeln verschärfen
CDU-Politiker Alexander Throm will Einbürgerungsreformen der Ampelregierung rückgängig machen. Grund dafür ist ein Höchststand bei Einbürgerungen.
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We are launching the symposium “On Law and Politics in the Hungarian Transition” to explore what constitutional repair in Hungary can look like after Tisza's landslide victory. PÁL SONNEVEND argues: a new constitution would be a mistake. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-cons...
⚖️🌈 The court’s ruling raises serious concerns regarding the sovereignty of member states and constitutional identity. In light of these concerns, the Hungarian government will not implement the ruling, writes Viktor Orbán in a letter, he sent today to the President of the Republic.
Katalin Halmai@eublogo.bsky.social · 4mo agoJudgment in Case C-769/22 Commission v Hungary on restrictions to LGBTI+ content allegedly aimed at protecting children 🎥 💬 President Koen Lenaerts explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👇 curiawebtv.connectedviews.eu/meeting/03b4...
The CJEU sees the Hungarian anti-LGBTIQ* law as stigmatisation that may foster hateful conduct and thus violates European values. ARMIN VON BOGDANDY and LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER argue that with this decision, the Court advances European society. verfassungsblog.de/the-red-line...
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!
Perhaps a good time to bring up again our proposal with @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein on how to suspend Hungary’s voting rights based on a breach of solidarity in CFSP: www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...
A Matter of Solidarity: A New Approach to Revive Article 7 TEU Against Hungary
Viktor Orbán increasingly undermines the EU’s collective interests. The Hungarian government systematically uses its veto powers to block Ukrainian military aid and accession negotiations and to dilu...
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A long read on national competences and the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social in the @euconst.bsky.social I tried to make sense of and refute claims that the Court must respect national competences when interpreting substantive EU law (many will be reminded of the “retained powers” formula…).
European Constitutional Law Review@euconst.bsky.social · 8mo agoStop the competence confusions, Dimitri Spieker argues in his new article. The vertical division of competencies does not and cannot constrain the CJEU's interpretation of EU law. Read the piece Open Access at: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Good to see @europarl.europa.eu refer to principle of solidarity in its resolution on Hungary calling for triggering of Art. 7(2) TEU. With @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein, we argued that new Art. 7 procedure should be initiated against HU based on breaches of solidarity in CFSP
The EU’s 19th sanctions package against Russia could be blocked by Hungary & Slovakia. Max Planck scholars Armin von Bogdandy & Dimitri Spieker explore legal avenues on how to overcome the vetoes & break the deadlock. www.mpg.de/25538859/eu-... @mpil.de @dimitrispieker.bsky.social
Sanctions against Russia: ways to break the deadlock
How can the EU extend sanctions against Russia despite resistance from Hungary and Slovakia? The focus is on the EU’s 19th sanctions package, which would use around €140 billion in frozen Russian asse...
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We are thrilled to announce that @steffenmau.bsky.social, one of Germany’s leading sociologists, has been appointed Director at our Institute. He will lead a new Department on Inequality, Transformation & Conflict, addressing pressing societal challenges via cutting-edge social science research.
Recently, Armin von Bogdandy and @dimitrispieker.bsky.social put forward a proposal on how to overcome the Hungarian veto, followed by a sharp response from Martijn van den Brink and Mark Dawson. Do Dawson and van den Brink’s objections convince? A rejoinder: verfassungsblog.de/overcoming-o...
For those who work in EU law, this debate is vital to the future of the Union. Can the EU survive with a dictatorship in its midst, using its veto on matters existential to the EU? Here are creative ways around the veto, honoring the rule of law.
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · 11mo agoRecently, Armin von Bogdandy and @dimitrispieker.bsky.social put forward a proposal on how to overcome the Hungarian veto, followed by a sharp response from Martijn van den Brink and Mark Dawson. Do Dawson and van den Brink’s objections convince? A rejoinder: verfassungsblog.de/overcoming-o...
For @sarahganty.bsky.social & I it was an Article 2 TEU #pride‼️ Respect the values, Orbán‼️🇭🇺🏳️🌈Hungary is too beautiful and loving to flush it down the drain with illegal nonesense‼️ @ilgaeurope.bsky.social @ceudeminst.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social
Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · last yr.🌈🇭🇺 My short POV from the historic Budapest Pride: part celebration, part anti-gov't protest. For context: men in zebra dresses reference the zebras kept near the Orbán family’s mansion. Marchers also mocked gay Orbán ally ex-MEP József Szájer and the PM’s son Gáspár (“I came because of Gáspár”).
Wow, this would be a huge, and highly necessary step! 25 years after AG Jacob’s opinion in UPA, AG Emiliou gives overturning Plaumann another try.
Laurent Pech 🇺🇦@profpech.bsky.social · last yr.AG Emiliou 731/23 P "the time is now for the Court to revisit its Plaumann case-law. Not only because the present case offers an opportunity to do so but, first and foremost, because ... the current legal system is profoundly different from that in force when the judgment in Plaumann was delivered"
Hungary is threatening to obstruct the extension of EU sanctions against Russia. A lot is at stake, including Europe's security. ARMIN VON BOGDANDY & LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER (@mpil.de) with a new proposal on how to overcome Hungary's veto: verfassungsblog.de/hungarian-ve...
📢 Join our #StrategicLitigation webinar on 12 June at 12:30 CEST! We'll unpack the European Commission’s infringement case against Hungary & its impact on future #LGBTI rights in the EU. 🎙 With Háttér Society, legal experts & more. 🔗 Register now www.ilga-europe.org/news/what-th...
SCRIPTS is celebrating! 🎉 We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy! We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0! #Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy
📢 Out now: Is EU law over-constitutionalised? Dieter Grimm thinks so. In his latest article, @dimitrispieker.bsky.social challenges that view, arguing that the Treaties’ rigidity is overestimated and that judicial responsiveness and legislative activity are underestimated. doi.org/10.1017/glj....
Thanks to @verfassungsblog.de for publishing my take on Commission v Malta. “Golden passports” violate the value of solidarity!
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.Commentators have been quick to condemn Commission v Malta for its flimsy and results driven legal reasoning. Not so fast, says LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER. He argues that the Court did not necessarily make bad law in resolving what a was a very hard case. verfassungsblog.de/its-solidari...
#ECJ: The Maltese investor citizenship scheme is contrary to #EULaw #EUCitizenship golden #passports 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
Court of Justice of the European Union
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In @faznet.bsky.social beschwören Ulrich Karpenstein und ich die neue Bundesregierung, sich für einen 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙯𝙪𝙜 𝙐𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙪𝙛 𝙀𝙐-𝙀𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚 Stark zu machen! 👉 www.faz.net/einspruch/wa...
Warum sich die Bundesregierung in Brüssel für einen Stimmrechtsentzug Ungarns einsetzen muss
Bei der anstehenden Verlängerung der Russland-Sanktionen ist Ungarns Veto vorprogrammiert. Es bleiben nur wenige Wochen, um eine Blockade abzuwenden. Das nötige Instrument dazu liefern die Europäische...
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🚨📢Come work with us! We at Humboldt University’s law faculty have an amazing Easter present for all EU law aficionados! The DFG Research Training Group DynamInt offers 12 fully funded PhD positions in the area of European law starting from October 2025! www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp...
Planned Call for applications: Ten doctoral research positions
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Just use Art. 7(2) TEU and strip Hungary of its voting rights in the Council! There is momentum for this step as I argue here: verfassungsblog.de/tackling-orb...
Tackling the Union’s “Orbán Problem” Now
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Katalin Halmai@eublogo.bsky.social · last yr.Transposing EU-wide sanctions against Russia into national law could be a way to undercut Orbán’s ability to veto their rollover, a handful of governments think. Others are hesitant to make any moves that could undermine a common front.
On @verfassungsblog.de I call for tackling the Union's "Orban Problem" NOW! 📣 The momentum has never been better! The @ec.europa.eu should bring a new proposal under Art. 7(2) TEU, which couples restraint and boldness.
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.The EU is facing an “Orbán problem”. That much is clear. LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER argues that the Commission should submit a new proposal under Article 7(2) TEU focusing on breaches of solidarity and threats to the Union’s security: verfassungsblog.de/tackling-orb...
Land does not vote. Eine Karte wie zu Beginn der Animation ist seit der Bundestagswahl oft zu sehen gewesen. Sie zeigt die Parteizugehörigkeit der Wahlkreissieger nach Erststimmen. Wir sehen: ziemlich viel AfD-Blau. 🧵 #Bundestagswahl 📊
🇪🇺 In the new #ZaöRV’s Comment: @dimitrispieker.bsky.social argues why protecting #EU values does not require treaty change. Read his take #OpenAccess: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/... #EUlaw #RuleOfLaw #HJIL
