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Rule of Law Defence Beyond High Politics: Lessons from the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s History Curriculum Decision

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Introduction For many years, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) stood out as one of the more functional institutions of the Dayton order. It was certainly politically contested, but its continued ability to decide constitutional disputes gave it a degree of institutional resilience in a system otherwise marked by vetoes, blockages and fragmentation. … →

Operationalising Fundamentals: Rule of Law Conditionality in the EU Growth Plan

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The EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans was introduced in 2023 as a complementary enlargement instrument designed to foster economic convergence and social development alongside the broader Europeanisation process. What distinguishes this instrument, however, is not merely its economic ambition but its method – modelled on the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Growth Plan … →

The Judge is Their Own Executioner: How Constitutional Judges’ Self-Decisions on Their Own Terms of Office Endanger the Montenegrin Rule of Law

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This translation is a redesigned reproduction of the original article that was published on Verfassungsblog on the 15th of January 2026. The original article can be found at the following link Introduction The election of a new judge to the Montenegrin Constitutional Court on November 25, 2025, has once again revealed a structural problem: the judges … →