About the Need of Euro-Amendment to the Constitution of Poland

• Authors: Jarosław Szymanek
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

At the present moment, such background is created by e.g. the international models and general rules, and solutions applied in a democratic constitutional state. Every constitution creator wishes to form a truly modern act that will be adequate to the need of the moments and, at the same time, properly (democratically) legitimized, which must respect certain, at least the minimum requirements in the scope of defining the catalogue of principal rules or rights and freedoms of an individual. However, the proper Euro-amendment has a much more modest reach and it covers the part of constitutional matter which pertains to the participation of a state in the European Union directly. The Euro-amendment understood in this way can be divided into the widely understood Euro-amendment, which will contain procedures, e.g. of a country accession to the Union and enforcement of its rights and the narrow Euro-amendment which should be understood as adaptation of the constitution to the mechanism of a country’s accession to the Economic and Monetary Union and, in consequence, replacement of the national currency with Euro. In Poland, proper Euro-amendment has not been introduced in the wide or in the narrow sense. It seems, however, that it is more and more necessary not only owing to the deepening participation of Poland in the European Union structures but, most of all, owing to the willingness (and the need resulting from the accession treaty) to accept the Euro currency.

Keywords

EN

Constitution; Euro-amendment; accession; European Union; Democratic standards

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Studia Prawnicze
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 1(183)
• Pages: 5-30

Contributors

author

Jarosław Szymanek

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warszawa