Piše: Antonio Karlović
In late 2020, rule of law once again made headlines across European media. The direct cause was the Brussels’ attempt to condition the availability of the EU budget and recovery fund on member states’ respect for rule of law principles. As expected, this did not go well with Hungary and Poland who have a long record of violating judicial independence in their domestic political systems – a process that is widely perceived as the greatest threat to democracy in the Union. However, now that the European Parliament approved the regulation which would put member states in breach of the rule of law at risk of losing access to EU funds, the incentives for Budapest and Warsaw to step back on their controversial practices will perhaps change, as will the whole power (and attention) map in the Union. Nastavi čitati