CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN MEMBERSHIP
CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPEAN MEMBERSHIP

Summary/Abstract: Given the context in which Romania finds itself - on the one hand, a national, sovereign and independent, unitary and indivisible state and, on the other hand, its membership to certain international structures - for example to the United Nations, to the Council of Europe, to the European Union etc. - or Romania 's quality as a party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and other international treaties - the natural question arises, where lies the boundary between the national sovereignty, which presupposes the right of the state to decide freely in its internal and external affairs and which has two components, namely the independence and the supremacy, and the fulfilment of some obligations deriving from the membership to the above-mentioned structures, a membership having the significance of a restriction of the powers of the state authority, a relativization of national sovereignty.

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