The Constitutional Freedom of Economic Enterprise and the Protection of the Primate of the Private Property in the Context of the so-called States’s Golden Share

The subject of the study is the special privilege of the state in companies in which – having a minority of shares – they have golden share, and therefore the ability to exert an authoritative influence on significant decisions of the company, going beyond the capital position. This means limiting the freedom of enterprise and the primacy of private property. Golden share can be understood as an attempt to reconcile the interests of private owners with an important public interest in certain sectors of the economy where the interest of the state becomes particularly important. Since it is an exception to the equal position of shareholders, its use in economic policy should be extremely rare.