German Professor Presents on Parliamentarianism and Multi-Level Legislativeism in the European Union (EU)

The presentation by Prof. Joerg Menzel covered the history of the formation and development of Parliamentarianism and Multi-Level Legislativeism of the EU, in which the main topics were: the establishment and growth of the European Parliament as the highest legislative body of the European Union; the relationship between the laws of the Member States and the common law of the EU; issues arising in the process of maintaining and ensuring the citizenship rights of EU citizens, etc.

Professor Joerg Menzel gave a presentation to a large number of students from the Faculty of International Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Photo: Thanh Long/USSH)

According to Professor Joerg Menzel, the establishment and promotion of the European Parliament is a major effort by the European Union to unify the legislative system of the Union. Through the development of the Union, the European Parliament has been expanded and granted more power to promote its legislative role. In particular, by 1979, the European Parliament was directly elected by the European people. To date, the Parliament has 766 members.

In addition, Multi-Level Legislativeism is also a mechanism contributing to the process of unification of EU law. Multi-Level EU Legislativeism consists of two main components: EU Law and Member State Law, according to which EU Law always has a higher position than Member State Law, and plays a role as a mechanism to ensure the civil rights of all EU citizens. According to Professor Joerg Menzel, the success of the Multi-Level Legislative System depends largely on the consistency between EU Law and Member State Law. He also mentioned the German legal system as an example of an EU member state legal system and the problems in the process of harmonizing German Law and EU Law.

It is known that the presentation by Prof. Joerg Menzel is an activity within the framework of cooperation activities between the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Konrad Adenauer Institute (Germany).