history is that of a federal unit within a federal state – the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). After the dissolution of the SFRY in the 1990s, it was again structured as a federal state with two federal units, and known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). From 2003 to 2...
Spain has two law-making levels: the State and the Autonomous Communities. Spain recognises certain legislative autonomy in its Autonomous Communities for the execution of legislation but anti-discrimination legislation is an exclusive task of the State. According to Article 81 of the Spanish Co...
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, consisting of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are not members of the EU. The Danish judicial system is based on the traditions of civil law as in continental Europe and is more or less divided into private law and pu...
Developments in Bulgarian legislation and practice in the field of anti-discrimination, equal treatment and equal opportunities were made possible thanks to the process of the full integration of Bulgaria into the EU. The National Assembly is the legislative body which adopts legislation, also i...
The Supreme law of the land is the Constitution of 1964 as amended. Malta is an independent republic with a parliamentary system of government. Parliament makes laws subject to respect for Malta’s international obligations including membership of the European Union. The European Union Act of 200...
The ruling FIDESZ-KDNP right-wing permanent party alliance (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége – Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt: Alliance of Young Democrats – Christian Democratic People’s Party) has structurally reorganised the Hungarian state organisation and fundamentally modified the Hungarian legal ...
In terms of direct sources of law, the Bulgarian legal system is based on a strictly defined hierarchy of the sources of law as follows: EU Law has supremacy over the internal legal provisions of the legislation of Bulgaria (including the Constitutional provisions) which contradict it and it has...
The Portuguese legal system is mainly a statutory law system, headed by the Portuguese Constitution (PC) and developed by state legislation. Where employment and industrial relations are concerned, the Labour Code (LC) is the essential statutory piece of legislation and it also integrates the ma...
