La Reception Du Droit Europeen Par Le Droit Francais: Integration Et Respect De La Souverainete Nationale

France at the origins of the European construction. French law subjected to European law, but guaranteed of national sovereignty. I. Submission to European law: European “legal order” 1. “Legal order” of the European Order “A community legal order integrated into the domestic legal order and distinct from the international order” A. Time resistance: a Jacobin State Council Manifestations of resistance: screen law, pre-legal matters, transposition of directives. A more respectful position of the Court of Cassation. Boosting the Constitutional Council B. Integration by recognizing the specificity of Community law The principle of integration constitutional (2004). Harmonization between the supreme courts. Preventing the conflict. Independence in interpretation 2. Integration of the European Convention on Human Rights A. Safeguarding fundamental rights Adapting French law and jurisprudence. Examples: phone-tapping; stakeout ... B. Fair trial French specificity put into debate: the famous trial of Government’s Commissioner before the administrative courts; advisory and contentious double function. Subtle arrangements. II. Respect of national sovereignty 1. Statement of the Constitutional Council A. Bloom of the constitutional review: first only a priori, the apparition of the a posteriori control with the priority issue of constitutionality. B. A conventional constitutional and administrative law Area of the judges’ power on the constitutional control and constitutional control: anything, except for the control of law’s constitutionality. 2. The superiority of the Constitution on the treaties The importance of the Constitution and priority in examining the issue of constitutionality. A. Constitutional rules and Community rules: translation Migration of a rule to another. Sending from one jurisdiction to another of the pre-trial matters. B. Constitutionality preventive control of treaties The main issue of constitutionality: which is the way the priority should be managed? Conclusion: The complexity in the service of harmony