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Strengthening the Rule of Law in the EU: The Council's Inaction

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  • Peter John Oliver
  • Justine Stefanelli

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In May 2014 the Legal Service of the Council delivered an opinion on the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework, stating the Commission's new mechanism was unlawful. This article sets out a critical analysis of this opinion, and questions whether the annual rule of law dialogue announced by the Council in December 2014 is a feasible response. Hungary is used as a case study to highlight the total failure of the Council to take any action whatsoever in the face of the grave and systemic abuses of human rights committed by the government of that country since 2010; and Poland where an autocratic regime has been in place since the autumn of 2015 is also mentioned. This is contrasted with the efforts of the majority of the Members of the European Parliament to tackle the acute challenge and with the Commission's action on specific breaches. A co-ordinated strategy is sorely needed.

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  • Peter John Oliver & Justine Stefanelli, 2016. "Strengthening the Rule of Law in the EU: The Council's Inaction," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/236622, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/236622
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    1. Ludvig Norman, 2021. "To Democratize or to Protect? How the Response to Anti‐System Parties Reshapes the EU's Transnational Party System," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(3), pages 721-737, May.

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