Europe Decoded What's next after Brussels triggers rule of law mechanism on Hungary? The never-used procedure will target the €6.1 billion the country gets every year from the EU budget. 06/04/2022
Europe News Polish judges detail rule of law backsliding in new documentary Some Polish judges are making sure the conflict between Warsaw and Brussels over rule of law backsliding isn't forgotten. 14/03/2022
Europe News 'Nazi salute' in EU parliament was 'an innocent wave', says MEP Angel Dzhambazki raised his right hand after speaking in a debate on the rule of law in Poland and Hungary. 17/02/2022
Europe News ECJ rules in favour of making EU cash handouts conditional The high court rejected a bid by Poland and Hungary, which argued the budgetary instrument exceeded EU competences. 16/02/2022
Uncovering Europe Rule of law in the EU: Is Slovenia following Hungary's path? The European Parliament adopted a critical resolution on the backsliding of EU values in Slovenia, without the votes of the powerful EPP centre-right group. 20/12/2021
Europe News EU Parliament sues Commission over failure to act on rule of law The European Parliament wants the Commission to activate a new budgetary mechanism to freeze EU funds to countries suspected of breaching EU law. 29/10/2021
Uncovering Europe A year on, Poland's abortion ruling is causing 'harm' to women As the rule of law crisis between Warsaw and Brussels escalates, activists say the abortion ban imposed by a politicised court just a year ago offers a painful example of how the collapse of judicial independence affects peoples' lives. 22/10/2021
Europe News 'Slap in the face': EU leaders ask Poland to respect EU law primacy "I do believe Poland has gone too far," said Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin ahead of a two-day European summit in Brussels. 21/10/2021
Europe News EU summit: Polish legal row and energy prices to take centre stage The meeting, which will probably be Chancellor Merkel's last council, will also include discussions on trade deals, digital transformation and migration. 20/10/2021
Uncovering Europe Will Poland's 'nuclear strike' on EU's legal order lead to 'Polexit'? The ruling that Polish law has supremacy over the EU's sent shockwaves across Europe. But what will it mean for EU-Poland relations? 08/10/2021
Europe News Brussels admits link between COVID cash delays and EU values respect Hungary and Poland, accused of disrespecting EU values, are both waiting for Brussels to approve their COVID recovery cash. 10/09/2021
Europe News EU wants daily fines for Poland over its contentious judiciary reforms The European Commission has asked for daily penalties to be imposed on Poland until the country agrees to change its controversial disciplinary chamber of judges. 07/09/2021
Poland Poland's president changes tune on judicial reform amid row with EU “Everything indicates that legislative changes will be needed,” President Duda said after a top Polish judge urged him to bring the country's controversial judicial reform into line with EU law. 30/07/2021
Poland Thousands of Polish judges urge their country to heed EU court rulings The magistrates say a refusal to abide by the European Court of Justice's rulings would not only violate EU laws but also Poland's national constitution. 28/07/2021
Europe News Judicial independence is a concern in some EU countries, says Brussels The European Commission again highlighted Poland and Hungary as being of particular concern. 20/07/2021
Europe News ECJ dismisses attempt by Hungary to reverse MEPs rule of law vote The bloc's highest court rejected Budapest's attempt to overturn a 2018 vote that started so-called Article 7 proceedings. 03/06/2021
Europe News EU 'must act faster' to stop loss of judicial independence in Poland It comes as the EU's top court ruled Warsaw's new regulations for appointing judges to the Supreme Court could violate the bloc's law. 02/03/2021
Uncovering Europe 'No justice, no judiciary': Belarus crisis exposed rule of law issue “Under a dictatorship, there cannot be independent judges and courts," said disbarred lawyer Alexander Pylchenko. "Our country is not an exception." 02/02/2021
View The rule of law deal that saved Angela Merkel’s legacy ǀ View In spite of her longstanding support for Viktor Orbán, German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have preserved her legacy after Poland and Hungary ended their blockade of the EU's historic budget. 13/12/2020
state of the union Europe's week: UK's vaccine boost and an illegal sex party A look back at the key stories from the centre of the EU in Brussels. 04/12/2020
Hungary ECJ should reject Hungary's bid to dismiss Article 7 vote: Top advisor The bloc's Advocate General, Michal Bobek, said on Thursday that the ECJ should dismiss "as unfounded" Hungary's bid to discredit the EU Parliament's vote that called on the bloc to trigger disciplinary proceedings against Budapest. 03/12/2020
View Europe’s overreach with the Recovery Fund may spell the end of the euro ǀ View Between governance mechanisms, assessment criteria, anti-corruption provisions, and basic rule of law principles, the fight to get the EU's Recovery Fund over the line is shaping up to be only half the battle. 01/12/2020
Europe News Orbán responsible for corruption in Hungary, says former Belgian PM Top MEP and former Belgian Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt, told Euronews that the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, must take responsibility for Hungary's position at the top of the EU's anti-fraud agency's corruption list. 26/11/2020
Europe News Do Hungarians approve of Budapest's veto of the EU's budget? Hungary this week vetoed the EU's €1.8 trillion budget and coronavirus recovery package. What do Hungarians make of the move? 20/11/2020
Europe News Hungary and Poland block EU's COVID recovery package over rule of law Budapest and Warsaw governments are threatening to veto the EU budget and recovery fund over proposals to link access to cash with the respect of the rule of law. 16/11/2020
Europe News The Briefing: Poland abortion ruling should worry everyone in the EU Whatever your view is on the abortion issue itself, the way the recent ruling in Poland came about should worry everyone in the EU, especially those sitting in the European Quarter in Brussels, says Euronews' Political Editor Darren McCaffrey. 05/11/2020
