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"To continue to engage at length with X is to enable this cycle of behavior. You can count me out" & find me instead on๐ฆ
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ
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Professor of Law, Dean of @UCDLawSchool, co-director @goodlobbyprofs, senior research fellow @CEUDemInst. Usual disclaimers.
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
President Biden ups the ante for November: Rein in SCOTUS and POTUS โ or let both go rogue and destroy both democracy and law.
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EU's (enforcement) reaction to date: zero infringement action launched & zero ๐ถ suspended tbomk but multiple expressions of "concerns" and possibly "serious concerns"
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"With regard to Bulgaria, the EU Commission has a long history of seeing progress when the #ruleoflaw was under assault ... Sadly, in the Rule of Law reports, the EU Commission continues to make seemingly politically motivated decisions" Same re Romania. All to justify end of CVM
Verfassungsblog@Verfassungsblog
Bulgariaโs ๐ง๐ฌ Constitutional Court declared a significant part of constitutional amendments enacted in December 2023 unconstitutional. RADOSVETA VASSILEVA on (@radosveta_vass) on constitutional drama and the European Commissionโs rose-colored glasses: verfassungsblog.de/bulgarias-consโฆ
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"it is hard to imagine Giorgia Meloni will be persuaded to change her ways by the ARoLRโs at times critical, at times more conciliatory assessment, which mostly avoided directly pointing the finger at the ruling coalitionโs responsibility in worsening the state of the #ruleoflaw"
Verfassungsblog@Verfassungsblog
Is Italy the new Hungary? @benedetta_lob reads the European Commission's 2024 Annual Rule of Law Report on Italy as a wakeup call for Europe. verfassungsblog.de/breaking-bad-aโฆ
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Reminder: Commission has completely failed to enforce EU rule of law requirements, including in face of repeated and open violations of CJEU rule of law related rulings in ๐ท๐ด Instead we got end of special RoL mechanism and reality disconnected RoL country report this month
Forumul Judecatorilor din Romania@ForumulR
Romania: A declaration of war from the High Court of Cassation and Justice against the Court of Justice of the European Union officialblogofunio.com/2024/07/27/romโฆ
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
The new issue of The Tocqueville Review: out now ๐
Articles from leading experts about the rise of democratic illiberalism across Europe and the West
@utpjournals ๐ tocqueville21.com/the-tocquevillโฆ
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First CJEU ruling clarifying extent to which EU #ruleoflaw requirements/Art 19 TEU constrain national procedures for selecting/proposing candidates to CJEU. Convincing on jurisdiction, less so on substance re this stage (whatโs point of ranking candidates if this can be ignored)
EU Court of Justice@EUCourtPress
#ECJ: Nomination of #EU judges โ a Member State may propose a candidate other than the highest ranked on a list established by a national group of independent experts, provided that the proposed candidate meets the requirements of the Treaties ๐ curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_โฆ
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EU Commission's annual #ruleoflaw report: "inclusion of certain enlargement countries" such as #Serbia "reflects the progress made in their respective accession process or advancement as regards their level of preparedness on rule of law"
Real world... worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-inโฆ
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
For those following Hungary, here's a flashing red light. Hungarian 'sovereignty' is now in debt to China in a deal protected by state secrets.
Tompos Mรกrton@MartonTompos
Instead of obtaining free EU loans, Orbรกn has chosen to take out an expensive loan worth 1 billion euros from the PRC, pushing Hungary into Chinese debt slavery, with the details of the deal and the interest rate being kept a secret. ๐งต (1/5)
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Comm's 68% claim is just bogus. I mean even Comm accepts in a fn that this reflects "some progress" (*left undefined*) on 50% of its recommendations. More evidence of unhealthy consequence of increased politicisation of #ruleoflaw toolbox & VDL desperation to claim RoL "wins"
Liberties.EU - Rule of Law Report 2025 Due Soon@LibertiesEU
2โฃ Recommendations donโt add up The Commission claims 68% of 2023 recommendations are addressed. Our analysis shows only 8 of 137 fully implemented and 41 with no progress. Significant issues, like #Slovakia's shrinking #civicspace, were overlooked. #EU #Accountability 3/7
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
๐๏ธ Hot off the press: The EU Commission fails to unlock the Rule of Law Reportโs full potential
The @EU_Commission's fifth annual Rule of Law report is out. Here's our immediate take on it, with a detailed gap analysis coming in September.
#ROLReport24 #EU #RuleofLaw
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@eublogo @dreynders @nepszava Is the Commission still sitting on its infringement action re the same (dictatorial) piece of legislation?
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Brussels has already blocked โฌ2.4 billion for the "child protection law", which discriminates against #LGBTIQ people, for laws that curb academic freedom and violate migrants' rights. We donโt rule out that the same will happen with the sovereignty law, @dreynders told @nepszava
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๐ฅSCOOP The @EU_Commission does not rule out applying the horizontal enabling conditions and suspending further cohesion funding to #Hungary because of the law on the protection of sovereignty, which violates the Charter of Fundamental Rights on several points, @nepszava reports
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"The Hungarian government โforgotโ to mention the loan in its official communication before the 9 June European parliamentary and municipal elections." In other news, dailynewshungary.com/orban-circle-wโฆ
Daily News Hungary@DNewsHungary
BREAKING โ Hungary took out a gigantic Chinese loan in secret โ avoiding bankruptcy? dnh.news/TB2z5c Click to read more #hungary #dailynewshungary
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
NEW: "Autocracy vs. Democracy?" The latest issue of The Tocqueville Review | La revue Tocqueville is available online! ๐@utpjournals
It builds upon last year's conference in Paris with Jan-Werner-Mรผller, Pascal Ory and many more โฌ๏ธ
tocqueville21.com/the-tocquevillโฆ
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Laurent Pech ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
I am aware that being the sole & only true representative of THE PEOPLE is a hard work, but actually it is interesting to see the two, perhaps most #populist EU politicians in power, ๐ญ๐บ PM #ViktorOrbรกn & ๐ธ๐ฐ PM #RobertFico, being the least egalitarian EU leaders & earning the most in comparison to the average wage in their respective countries.
Szabolcs Panyi@panyiszabolcs
๐ค๐ญ๐บViktor Orbรกn seems far removed from the average citizen when it comes to his salary. Among EU heads of government, Hungary's leader receives the highest pay relative to the country's average gross salary. Read @Atlatszo's analysis on @VSquare_Project: vsquare.org/viktor-orban-rโฆ
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"This report does not objectively reflect the situation of judiciary in Romania"
This is unfortunately correct & part of a broader pattern whereby the EU Commission just looks the other way whenever it would be politically costly to uphold the #ruleoflaw
Forumul Judecatorilor din Romania@ForumulR
AroLR 2024: Romanian Judges' Forum Association will no longer participate in any dialogue with the European Commission, refusing that the honorability of its members be used for political speeches and settlements forumuljudecatorilor.ro/index.php/archโฆ
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