My latest article on the action for annulment brought by a Romanian association of prosecutors, challenging the Commission decision to repeal the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. In this article I present the main challenges for the action, a procedural and substantive analysis of the Commission's actions, and conclude on what this means for the rule of law in Romania

#RuleOfLaw #Romania #CVM #GeneralCourt #LocusStandi #IndependentJudiciaries
https://euinside.eu/en/analyses/the-fight-for-the-rule-of-law-moves-against-main-guardian-the-commission

The Fight for the Rule of Law Moves against Its Main Guardian: the Commission

On 15 September 2023, the Commission put a legal end to the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) by repealing Decisions 2006/928/EC (Romania) and 2006/929/EC (Bulgaria). This is a very regrettable development at a time when the rule of law erosion and the illiberalism creep have been on ...

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The sheer amount and scale of the attack on the rule of law in #Slovakia is shocking. This article is a very good recap on what Fico's new government has done in its first 100 days in power. A must-read!

#Slovakia #RuleofLaw #BackSliding #IndependentJudiciaries #CriminalLaw #WhistleBlowing

https://verfassungsblog.de/fico-iv/