The top court’s new head: Constitutional Court defines boundaries of legislation

Lenkovics said that the Constitutional Court should not become a kind of “supercourt”, a final court of appeals, since “it is not to do justice in individual cases” and argued that the top body is only to deal with cases in which a constitutional issue arises.

Lenkovics also said that under the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty the EU observes the national identity of member states, which includes a constitutional identity – to be safeguarded by the constitutional courts of each member. He said that the relationship between the constitutional identities of member states and European values “raises such sensitive issues” that can only be handled through “mutual respect and confidence”.