Constitutional Risk Management in the V4 Countries – Diverging Practices and the Need for Convergence
Journal Article: Constitutional Risk Management in the V4 Countries – Diverging Practices and the Need for Convergence
Journal: European Journal of Risk Regulation - Special Issue on Constitutional Risk Management in the V4 Countries, Edited by Zoltán Szente & Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
Date of Publication: July 17, 2025
Author: Zoltán Svente and Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
How to Cite: Szente, Z.; Gárdos-Orosz, F. Constitutional Risk Management in the V4 Countries – Diverging Practices and the Need for Convergence. European Journal of Risk Regulation. 2025;16(2): 460-465. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2024.105
Abstract: Our special issue examines the regulation and practice of constitutional risk management in the V(isegrád)-4 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Unfortunately, the treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic made this enterprise relevant, as all four countries had to face a similar health emergency. This article presents the most important experiences and trends in the constitutional crisis management of the four countries, identifying the challenges that the constitutional emergency regulatory regimes have encountered so far. Our paper argues that despite the basically similar constitutional frameworks, these countries typically handled the crisis in a different way, and in the process many constitutional problems arose for which there was no clear or uniform solution. Since the purpose of the international comparative research that is the basis of our special issue was to examine the emergency constitution of these four countries in general (since it will have to be applied to possible later, other types of emergencies), in the last chapter of the article we examine the possibilities of a proposition that represents a novelty in the constitutional discourse on emergency situations: this is an option for the convergence of emergency constitutions.
The article can be found here, and in PDF form here.
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