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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by Xylakant on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:35AM (#32913184)
But if your constitution is incompatible with the treaties required to be member in the EU, you essentially have two options: change your constitution or not be member of the EU.
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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by NoboruWataya on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:04PM (#32913653)
It's a bit more complicated than this, because the treaties don't really have any mechanism for unilaterally expelling a member state and there is no precedent for doing so. The reality is there is no easy answer to what happens when a national constitution is incompatible with EU law.
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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by M2Ys4U on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:09PM (#32913746)
Member states can, in theory, be suspended, though we've seen when it comes to Hungary and Poland that mechanism is quite hard to use (as it requires unanimity of all of the other member states) and it's considered the "nuclear option".
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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by sokoloff on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:02PM (#32913617)
Or, leave both the constitution and treaties in place and wait to see if the EU bothers to take adverse action.
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