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THE EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMIC CONSTITUTION AS THE ADDITIONAL DIMENSION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA: CONTOURS OF THE RESEARCH (84)

Author: Irmantas JARUKAITIS
Topic category: European Union Law
, Constitutional Law

The article deals with the notion of the economic constitution, the content of the economic constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, of the European Union and the interrelationship between the two. The first part of the article, relying, among the other things, on the thoughts of the ordoliberal school, is devoted to analysis of the concept of the economic constitution. It describes the reasons, why certain core principles concerning of the organization of the economic system of the political community should form part of the constitutional rules of that community, how they should be defined in order to ensure the optimal frame of the economic system.