Resumen de Separation versus Fusion - or: How to Accommodate National Autonomy and the Charter? Diverging Visions of the German Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice

Daniel Thym

• German Federal Constitutional Court's dialogue with the European Court of Justice - Background, trigger, contents and context of the FCC's reaction to the Åkerberg Fransson judgment - The FCC's Counter-Terrorism Database judgment - Constitutional control standards - theoretical repercussions of the judicial dispute - Underlying conceptual differences - The 'fusion thesis' versus the 'separation thesis' - Pragmatic approximation of divergent positions