The Infra-Constitutionality of European Law in Romania and the Challenges of the Romanian Constitutional Culture

2016

This article deals with European Law as a legal transplant facing the Romanian constitutional culture, in the context of constitutionally limiting the Romanian State’s sovereignty as a member of the EU. Consequently, the reception of the EU law into the Romanian constitutional system (and culture) is determined by two paradoxically divergent Romanian legal-cultural traits: on the one hand, the necessity (bearing accents of national legal pride) to cherish and fructify the Romanian legal (constitutional) traditions, reified, as I shall denominate, as ‘the adapted Romanian law’, and stipulated in the 2003 amended Constitution as a ‘tradition firewall’ / ecran de traditionalite. On the other h…