Given a striking culmination of a years-long failure on the part of the Commission to protect the rule of law, do we need a different accountability mechanism?

HENRY BARRETT argues for a new ‘Non-EU Rule of Law Commission’:

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Yet another must-read piece from ⁦Dr Joelle Grogan⁩ ⁦UK in a Changing Europe⁩ >> Leaving the European convention on human rights won’t stop the boats – but it will create other problems for the UK theconversation.com/leaving-the-eu…

🇸🇰⚖️🇪🇺 The European Commission is warning Slovakia that its remaining recovery fund money is at risk over 'reforms' of the prosecutor's office. The Fico government has until tomorrow to respond. The rule of law crisis, receding in Poland, metastasises south. 1/

Ultra-rapid rule of law backsliding in Slovakia. It took Orbàn a decade, Fico does it in a matter of months. What action by Commission and #EUCO Ursula von der Leyen Charles Michel Věra Jourová?

If EU had learned anything from attacks on judiciary in Poland and Hungary, they would react quickly and decisively to these developments in Slovakia…
Alas, I fear they have learned nothing.

The EU urges Georgia to refrain from passing a controversial 'foreign agents' law, but ‘forgets’ to have recently proposed a similar proposal currently under consideration #FARA #georgia

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In personal news this week: #guggfellows2024

The chief of European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) doesn’t mince her words. Far too little is done to fight corruption and crime, criticises also the EU institutions and national governments. #EPPO has very quickly become one of the most effective EU bodies, defending the rule of law

In restoring the rule of law after eight dark years of the authoritarian PiS government, is Tusk’s government in Poland (and ⁦⁦Adam Bodnar⁩ )⁩ more like Hercules or Sisyphus? My op-ed, on the legacy of statutory lawlessness.
Hercules or Sisyphus? verfassungsblog.de/hercules-or-si…

EU council due to be presided by mafia state regime built on systemic misappropriation of EU funding & on its way 'to becoming Semi-Consolidated Authoritarian Regimes'. Well done to Charles Michel & EU Council members for doing nothing to prevent this
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Did any of you mention that #Hungary should comply with the judgments of the EU Court of Justice? Or was this not an issue? Perhaps the supremacy of EU law over national law has been discussed? 🤔

The new justice minister is leading an unprecedented democratic experiment The Irish Times
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The Polish government restores judicial self-government in the Council for the Judiciary by reintroducing the rule that judges in the council will be elected by their peers. Congratulations: good step forward.

Fascinating. An outgoing Commissioner threatening to bring Member States before EU Court for alleged breach of a not-yet-into force set of laws...

All this coming from an EU Commission that has essentially failed to enforce EU law

This is becoming a parody

Must read article from Tommaso Pavone & Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez for those interested in EU law and politics 👇

The perpetuated state of danger has been again extended until November 2024 in 🇭🇺. This excessive and abusive use of emergency decrees undermines the rule of law, and interferes with the operation of businesses in the EU’s single market.
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‼️Even a French far-right MEP has described the prosecution of Anna Júlia Donáth as politically motivated. On the basis of the report of Gilles Lebreton of Identity & Democracy Party the #EP today rejected the request of the Hungarian prosecutor’s office to waive her immunity.
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Interesting & as it happens, this is exactly what associations of judges & prosecutors have requested the EU General Court to recognise re #ruleoflaw issues in situation where systemic deficiencies have already been recognised by EU institutions, incl. CJEU itself The Good Lobby Profs

EU interregnum year is always best time for would-be autocrats to engage in systemic constitutional capture and create irreversible facts on the ground/establish mafia state. By the time, Commission and Council might eventually think of doing something, it is too late

Hungarian journalist Szilárd Teczár asked the EU-Commission for the briefing for Commissioner Reynders for a meeting with Hungarian ex-minister of justice Varga.

This is what he got:

(Topic was the rule of law)

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