{"id":22314,"date":"2026-10-22T05:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=22314"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:00:15","slug":"20261022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20261022-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Supremacy and EU Law: Is Conflict Inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new research article by Dr Dovil\u0117 P\u016brait\u0117-Andrikien\u0117 of the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (LSMC), entitled \u201cConstitutional Supremacy without Conflict: Lithuania\u2019s Constitutional Court and EU Law\u201d, has been published in the international open-access journal \u201cAccess to Justice in Eastern Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n

The relationship between the supremacy of national constitutions and the primacy of EU law remains a central challenge of European constitutionalism. In some European countries, this relationship has generated significant constitutional tensions. But is conflict inevitable? The article examines the Lithuanian Constitutional Court\u2019s approach to EU law since Lithuania joined the EU in 2004. It focuses on the constitutional doctrine governing the relationship between the Constitution and EU law, the Court\u2019s two preliminary references to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and the growing importance of EU law and CJEU case law in constitutional interpretation. The article argues that Lithuania offers a distinctive model of constitutional accommodation, demonstrating that constitutional supremacy and EU law primacy can coexist through judicial dialogue and cooperation rather than confrontation. The article also considers critical assessments of this model, including questions about the limits of judicial dialogue, the Constitutional Court\u2019s role, and potential tensions between constitutional supremacy and the primacy of EU law.<\/p>\n

The full open-access article is available here: https:\/\/ajee-journal.com\/constitutional-supremacy-without-conflict-lithuania-s-constitutional-court-and-eu-law<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tarptautiniame atvirosios prieigos mokslo \u017eurnale \u201eAccess to Justice in Eastern Europe\u201c paskelbtas LSMC Teis\u0117s instituto mokslinink\u0117s dr.\u00a0Dovil\u0117s P\u016brait\u0117s-Andrikien\u0117s straipsnis \u201eConstitutional Supremacy without Conflict: Lithuania\u2019s Constitutional Court and EU Law\u201c (liet. \u201eKonstitucijos vir\u0161enyb\u0117 be konflikto: Lietuvos Konstitucinis Teismas ir ES teis\u0117\u201c). Europos S\u0105jungos teis\u0117s vir\u0161enyb\u0117s principo ir nacionalini\u0173 konstitucij\u0173 auk\u0161\u010diausiosios teisin\u0117s galios santykis \u2013 vienas svarbiausi\u0173 Europos konstitucionalizmo klausim\u0173. Kai kuriose valstyb\u0117se jis suk\u0117l\u0117 reik\u0161ming\u0173 konstitucini\u0173 konflikt\u0173. Ta\u010diau ar tokie konfliktai nei\u0161vengiami? Straipsnyje nagrin\u0117jama Lietuvos Konstitucinio Teismo jurisprudencijos raida nuo Lietuvos \u012fstojimo \u012f ES 2004\u00a0m. ir atskleid\u017eiama, kaip Konstitucijos vir\u0161enyb\u0117 derinama su naryst\u0117s ES \u012fsipareigojimais. Aptariama Konstitucijos ir ES teis\u0117s santykio doktrina, du Konstitucinio Teismo kreipimaisi \u012f Europos S\u0105jungos Teisingumo Teism\u0105 d\u0117l prejudicini\u0173 sprendim\u0173 ir did\u0117janti ES teis\u0117s bei ESTT jurisprudencijos reik\u0161m\u0117 ai\u0161kinant Konstitucij\u0105. Lietuvos patirtis rodo, kad \u0161i\u0173 dviej\u0173 teis\u0117s sistem\u0173 santykis gali b\u016bti grind\u017eiamas bendradarbiavimu, teisminiu dialogu ir konstitucini\u0173 reikalavim\u0173 derinimu, o ne atviru konfliktu. Vis d\u0117lto straipsnyje aptariami ir kritiniai \u0161io modelio vertinimai, keliantys klausim\u0173 d\u0117l teisminio dialogo rib\u0173, Konstitucinio Teismo vaidmens ir galim\u0173 \u012ftamp\u0173 tarp Konstitucijos vir\u0161enyb\u0117s bei ES teis\u0117s vir\u0161enyb\u0117s principo. Vis\u0105 atvirosios prieigos straipsn\u012f galima rasti \u010dia: https:\/\/ajee-journal.com\/constitutional-supremacy-without-conflict-lithuania-s-constitutional-court-and-eu-law<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22320,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314\/revisions\/22320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}