Frédéric Rouvillois is Managing Director of the Fondation du Pont-Neuf (conservative think-tank).
In the eyes of those who were once called the average French, the primacy of European law is only an arid and obscure legal question, one that we abandon without regrets to specialists or to future candidates for election. presidential.
It is, however, a capital political point: in November 1988, it is precisely the contesting of this principle, that of the primacy of Soviet law, formulated by the Federal Republic of Estonia in a resounding
"declaration of sovereignty".
, which sounded the death knell for the USSR and ended up leading to its downfall.
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We are probably not there yet: but the recent positions taken by President Macron, echoing the case-law of the Polish constitutional court and the statements made before the European Parliament by Prime Minister Morawiecki, nonetheless arouse a certain perplexity.
For Emmanuel Macron, unconditional supporter
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