The EU Parliament’s Abdication on the Rule of Law (Regulation)

<p>To paraphrase a previous blog entry by Scheppele, Pech and Kelemen, if the The Decline and Fall of the European Union is ever written, historians will conclude that not only the EU’s two key intergovernmental institutions – the European Council and the Council – should bear the greatest res...

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Main Author: Alberto Alemanno
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Online Access:https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-parliaments-abdication-on-the-rule-of-law-regulation/
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description <p>To paraphrase a previous blog entry by Scheppele, Pech and Kelemen, if the The Decline and Fall of the European Union is ever written, historians will conclude that not only the EU’s two key intergovernmental institutions – the European Council and the Council – should bear the greatest responsibility for the EU’s demise, but also the EU Parliament. Indeed, by failing to challenge the legality of the EUCO’s December conclusions encroaching upon its own prerogatives, the EU Parliament might have just become an enabler of the ongoing erosion of the rule of law across the Union. Paradoxically, it did so after relying on incomplete and partial opinion of its own legal service advising the Parliament to trade the respect of the rule of law away for political convenience.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-ef51cfab74da4ee89b922ee48bc4949f2022-12-22T01:29:09ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442366-7044The EU Parliament’s Abdication on the Rule of Law (Regulation)Alberto Alemanno<p>To paraphrase a previous blog entry by Scheppele, Pech and Kelemen, if the The Decline and Fall of the European Union is ever written, historians will conclude that not only the EU’s two key intergovernmental institutions – the European Council and the Council – should bear the greatest responsibility for the EU’s demise, but also the EU Parliament. Indeed, by failing to challenge the legality of the EUCO’s December conclusions encroaching upon its own prerogatives, the EU Parliament might have just become an enabler of the ongoing erosion of the rule of law across the Union. Paradoxically, it did so after relying on incomplete and partial opinion of its own legal service advising the Parliament to trade the respect of the rule of law away for political convenience.</p> https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-parliaments-abdication-on-the-rule-of-law-regulation/conditionality, European Parliament, Rule of Law
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