… EU integration is an endemic issue, and the relationship between this and national conceptions
of identity … those concerned with EU law, and for scholars of national law who are looking …

… legal interpretation. Second, this paper advances the argument that the obligation to respect
the national identities … courts, that European law must comply with constitutional identity for it …

… constitute a lirnitation of the general prirnacy of EU law.'According to Claes, this … EU law,
but rather it 'Europeanizes' national identity, in the sense that 'the EU rnust, as a matter of EU law…

… Without such a restriction, almost every question of EU law could become a matter of
national identity if we consider, for example, that in Germany almost every political question …

… , it only indirectly acknowledges supremacy of EU law under Declaration 17. However, there
… , and it depends on the recognition on EU law into own national legal systems and it varies …

… a Member State’s obligations under EU law. So to return to our question, what does national
identity really encompass in EU law? In the absence of CJEU case law on former Article 6 (3…

… Both primary and secondary EU law have primacy over national laws of the Member States
and the higher rank of EU law is reinforced by its direct effect, in fact by the synergic effect of …

… the relevance of national identity under EU law. This article analyses if the principle of … EU
law, this paper examines national identity from the perspective of general principles of EU law. …

… ‘national identity’ has over time acquired a legally more relevant flavour by its reformulation
as ‘constitutional identity’, which as I argue is a legal concept of EU law. … overlap of legal and …

… “constitutional or national identity” has become a legal phenomenon that … identity by
constitutional courts has mainly been the result of defining the limits of EU law within domestic legal …