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“The Rule of Law Mechanism” and the Hungarian and Polish Resistance: European Law Against National Identity?

Author(s) -

Christoph Schewe,

Thomas Blome

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of the university of latvia law

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2592-9364

pISSN - 1691-7677

DOI - 10.22364/jull.14.03

Subject(s) - conditionality , sanctions , member states , political science , law , european union , order (exchange) , mechanism (biology) , rule of law , member state , resistance (ecology) , law and economics , economics , international trade , ecology , finance , politics , biology , philosophy , epistemology

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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