The process of Europeanization of the Constitutional Court

Abstract

This study analyzes the process of Europeanization of the Spanish Constitutional Court. From the beginning, when the Constitutional Court considered Community Law as something absolutely alien to the domestic constitutional text and, therefore, as something absolutely alien to its own jurisdiction, up to the present, in which the Constitutional Court seems to point towards a possible recognition of Union Law (specifically, of its Charter of Fundamental Rights) as a direct constitutional parameter subject to the ultimate jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court itself.