Pleased to publish a piece on rule of law conditionality in the European Court of Auditors journal. “Why the EU should freeze more funds to encourage the rule of law” Read it on p.114 here:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/JOURNAL22_02/Journal22_02.pdfThe corrupt autocrat Orbán makes fun of @Europarl_EN for its corruption scandal involving @EvaKaili. The difference of course is that she has been arrested and suspended whereas since he controls the public prosecutor & judiciary in Hungary, his corruption goes unpunished
Read "The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools"- my ECPR SGEU keynote address now published in the Journal of European Integration to find out what MacGyver and Rube Goldberg can tell us about the EU's failure to tackle the autocracy crisis.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07036337.2022.2152447?scroll=top&needAccess=true&role=tab@kimlanelaw @jmorijn & I in
@verfassungsblog with our take on the news about Commission proposing suspension of some EU funding to the Orbán regime. Bottom line: some good news & actions for which
@EU_Commission deserves credit, but overall it is a mixed bag- with far less action than was needed and worrying signs EU may cave in and appease Orbán next year.
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-2/ 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
On November 30, the European Commission finally called on national leaders to use the EU’s enormous budgetary leverage to stand up to the Orbán regime in Hungary and protect EU funds against the regime’s systemic corruption. First
Excited that Journal of European Public Policy has published a debate on my recent CPS article w/ Kate McNamara “Debate Section: On Kelemen & McNamara ‘State-building and the European Union’. Editors: Philipp Genschel & Frank Schimmelfennig” (
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2022.2141824 )w/ great contributions from Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Genschel, Schimmelfennig & Freudlsperger- & a response by McNamara & I:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2022.2141826
War, political development, and European integration: a debate on Kelemen and McNamara's ‘State-building and the European Union’
Published in Journal of European Public Policy (Ahead of Print, 2022)
