Curtea Europeană de Justiţie
European Court of Justice

Summary/Abstract: The European Court of Justice is, above all, the Trojan horse of the federal project into a conservative, precautious intergovernmental structure of this unclassifiable European Union. Should it follow precisely its birth certificate, it would be a difficult partner in the slalom among the member states’ requirements and reluctances. However, it had to reduce its strictness in order to protect the integration process as well as the achievements existing so far. On the other hand, as any viable organisation, it undertakes changes in order to get closer to its defining aim: the protector of Union’s law. This paper tries to be a comprehensive portrait of - perhaps – the most important tool of the European federalists on their way to unify the continent, namely, the Court of Justice, both in a diachronic view and in an up-to-date perspective, drafting the preparations for the turn into the Union’ Supreme and Constitutional Court.

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