ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen

The article describes and explains the challenges that Israeli democracy has experienced since 2019 when the constitutional crisis joined other crises the country has to cope with . Israel with its current extreme right-wing government has religious...

The UK’s departure from the EU caused significant challenges in terms of legal continuity, and specifically how to retain EU law after Brexit to avoid a “cliff edge” scenario . Once Brexit was completed, the focus shifted to reforming or...

The development of case law on parliamentary law at state level since 2018 has essentially been shaped by the widespread entry of the AfD into the state parliaments . While the party’s communication style led to an increase in calls to order, the...

In recent years, the European Parliament has regularly positioned itself as a staunch defender of the European Union’s fundamental values . It has repeatedly denounced grievances in member states as well as inaction by the Union’s other bodies ....

The “dignity” of Parliament is an undefined legal concept, the application of which must, on the one hand, leave room for the freedom of the political mandate of Members of Parliament under Article 38 (1) sentence 2 of the Basic Law and take...