The Venice Commission has always paid a great deal of attention to constitutional justice across Europe.

One of its initial meetings was devoted to the discussion of a working paper prepared by Helmut Steinberger on the models of constitutional jurisdiction. On that occasion, the presidents of the European constitutional courts and other equivalent bodies were invited to take part in a seminar organised in an old villa in Piazzola sul Brenta in October 1990.¹ In more recent times, the Secretariat of the Commission prepared a document entitled ‘Compilation of the Venice Commission Opinions, Reports and Studies on Constitutional Justice',² which offers a clear idea of the Commission's interventions in the matter and the principles and standards followed in the adoption of the relevant documents.

This compilation deserves special attention if we want to understand the fundamental choices at the base of the monitoring and consultative activity of the Commission with regard to the role of constitutional courts in the modern constitutional democracies. The documentation also helps us to gain an idea of the state of constitutional justice in European countries interested in the Venice Commission's guidelines. Before dealing with the principal conclusions adopted in the field by the Commission, some introductory remarks will be provided. Eventually, in the closing pages of this chapter, attention will be paid to recent developments that signal the tendency of some countries to deviate from the principles they adopted at the time of the commencement of their collaboration with the Venice Commission.

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Source: Bartole Sergio. The Internationalisation of Constitutional Law: A View from the Venice Commission. Hart Publishing,2020. — 152 p.. 2020

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