“The Rule of Law Mechanism” and the Hungarian and Polish Resistance: European Law Against National Identity?
Similarly to the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has also hit the European Union (EU) severely. In order to foster the process of the economic recovery of EU Member States, the EU Member States agreed on a financial aid package combined with a regulation – the conditionality mechanism – th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Latvia Press
2021-11-01
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| Series: | Law: Journal of the University of Latvia |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.lu.lv/jull/article/view/108 |
| Summary: | Similarly to the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has also hit the European Union (EU) severely. In order to foster the process of the economic recovery of EU Member States, the EU Member States agreed on a financial aid package combined with a regulation – the conditionality mechanism – that provided for financial sanctions in the event of a breach of the rule of law. Given that the positions of Poland and Hungary in the adoption process of this regulation caused a controversy, this article examines general questions on the rule of law, the regulation and the background to the controversy.
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| ISSN: | 1691-7677 2592-9364 |