I had a thought the other day in relation to how impossible it is for a large country to make everyone happy with broad policies. There are big differences in opinions, values, economics, and cultures across a population. What one city, county, province, etc prefers for policy seems to be universally be overridden by “higher level” governance levels going to the top if they so choose. Are there any countries where lower level, more specific jurisdictions get to set policy overrides instead of vice versa? Like, a place where nationwide laws are defaults, but smaller hierarchies can pass laws to supercede the higher defaults?
Such ideas are a core principle of European Union law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(European_Union)
Not true, member states cannot override EU directives, which is what the question asks. The subsidiarity is basically that if there’s no EU rule for <insert thing>, the national law applies.
Basically what US has, except EU has less laws (and intends to keep it that way).
They can’t on paper but they actually do it all the time
I mean, yeah, but if you need to go to various legal hacks for help, it’s not exactly a feature of the system.
Edit: If anyone’s interested in a legal hack my country came up with, when gun ownership was being banned for individuals, we put it in our constitution - EU law is above local laws, but not above constitution.