Introductory parts to the constitutions of Visegrad Group countries. Their relevance, constitutional identity and relation towards European Constitutional Identity.

Karol Popławski

doi:10.25142/cep.2019.002

Abstract

Introductory parts to the constitutions of Visegrad Group countries. Their relevance, constitutional identity and relation towards European Constitutional Identity.

Highlights

On 1989 countries of Central and Eastern Europe entered the path of a democratization
Article is objectively limited to the Visegrad Group countries, conclusions can be assigned to each Central and East European country, which was under Soviet Union influence
Seeking for the national and constitutional identity clauses, we need to determine fundamental decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on vanguard, because all the above argumentation presents in a very descriptive manner, we find there the statement “We do not recognize the communist constitution of 1949”, “Our present freedom began with the revolution of 1956”, “We confess that after the decades of the 20th century leading to the moral crisis we have an irresistible need for spiritual and intellectual renewal.”

Summary

Introduction

On 1989 countries of Central and Eastern Europe entered the path of a democratization. Even first glance implies whole process to be one directional – from so called “old democracies” to “new democracies” It was better and more politically correct to determine that “Eastern countries have aspired to fill the empty space created by the breakdown of the communist system”, but – from the beginning of post – communism transitional period – aimed on ‘returning to Europe and its standards’.4. It encompassed clear conviction that Central and Eastern European Countries share those principles and values, which needed only to be reinstated after the communism period.[5] On that basis, principle of sovereignty came into the fore. It was both dimensional: as sovereignty and independence of the State as well as sovereignty of Nation. – on the basis of the art. 4 par. 2 of the so-called “Lisbon

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