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The European Parliament's Role: Towards New Copenhagen Criteria for Existing Member States?
Author(s) -
Sargentini Judith,
Dimitrovs Aleksejs
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/jcms.12403
Subject(s) - parliament , political science , legislature , treaty , european union , rule of law , member states , context (archaeology) , commission , agency (philosophy) , democracy , law , european union law , european commission , fundamental rights , public administration , law and economics , human rights , business , sociology , politics , international trade , paleontology , social science , biology
The new own‐initiative report the European Parliament is preparing has three aims: to provide a formal evaluation of the recent initiatives by the Commission and the Council; to present a viable alternative; and to do so in the form of a legislative report, so as to obtain a formal reaction from the Commission. The institutions have proposed several possible solutions to the crisis of the Rule of Law in the EU. It is time to put them into a coherent system. The report will focus on five issues: the body for a permanent country‐by‐country monitoring of democracy, the Rule of Law and fundamental rights in the EU; the role of the Agency for Fundamental Rights; whether and how infringement procedures should be revisited in this context; what a proper pre‐Article 7 Treaty on European Union (TEU) procedure should look like; and what a valid legal basis for the proposed changes should be.