EU Supremacy Q&A
A legal concept known as "supremacy" states that in situations where EU Law is applicable to a matter that involves a conflict of norms, EU Law shall take precedence over national Law. Students may have a better understanding of how to tackle the EU Supremacy essay question by reading this set of questions and answers notes. In the answers, the historic idea is discussed, and then the discussion moves on to how the argument is progressing with more contemporary questions and answers from the examination.
Essay Question One
As time has passed Dicey’s account of Parliamentary sovereignty has become increasingly difficult to reconcile with constitutional reality in the UK. Critically discuss this statement.
Essay Question Two
Explain why the principles of autonomy, supremacy and direct effect are fundamental requirements for the legal order of the European Union.
Essay Question three (2024)
The challenge to the primacy of European Union (EU) law made in the recent case law of the Romanian Constitutional Court (RCC) at face value bears a resemblance to the rule of law crisis in Poland and, to a lesser extent, Hungary.
Discuss.
Essay Question Four
‘National courts are increasing on an unavoidable collision course the EU courts with their national legal orders’. Discuss.
