Verfassungspolitisches perpetuum mobile in Bulgarien
Bulgarian Constitutional Politics: a Perpetual Motion Machine

Summary/Abstract: On 2 February 2007, Bulgaria amended its constitution for the second time within ten months. A financial decentralization was established, important parts of the parliamentary law were changed and the preliminarily enacted abolition of the military draft was fixed in the constitution. Above all, the Bulgarian coalition government repeatedly aimed at solving the problems of the separation of powers and the judiciary. In part, norms which had been amended just ten months ago were revised again. In the meantime, the European Commission had criticized the first amendments and parts of them were submitted to the constitutional court. The article observes the Bulgarian constitutional politics from March 2006 till February 2007. First, both decisions of the constitutional court are discussed. Then the process, content and impact of the most recent constitutional amendments are analyzed in detail. Special attention is paid to the role of the European Union. The article then comes to the conclusion that structural improvements both in the balance of powers as well as in the structure of the judiciary have been achieved onl

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