Europe News MEPs want confidence vote in VDL over COVID cash decision for Poland Senior MEPs have criticised von der Leyen for approving Poland's recovery plan despite concerns over its rule of law provisions. 06/06/2022
Europe News Brussels approves €35B Polish recovery plan despite rule of law doubts The plan was blocked for more than a year over controversial judicial reforms in Poland. 01/06/2022
Hungary EU determined to uphold rule of law following Orban's re-election Hungary's Justice Minister had urged the bloc not to create division amid the war in Ukraine. 12/04/2022
Europe Decoded EU member states can leave, but can the bloc kick one of them out? The EU has not included such a procedure in its treaties — adding it now would take years and most likely fail. 08/04/2022
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
View EU must be prepared for a possible rigged election in Hungary | View In April the European Union could face the first ever significantly rigged vote in one of its member states. A full observation mission should be sent to this year's parliamentary election, warns German Marshall Fund fellow Daniel Hegedüs. 12/01/2022
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
Poland Polish lawmakers overturn Senate veto of controversial media law Polish lawmakers overturned on Friday a Senate veto of a controversial media bill seen as targeting a US-owned network that's often critical of the Polish government. 17/12/2021
View A factory showed the uglier face of Sino-Serbian partnership | View Last month, the treatment of Vietnamese workers building Serbia's first Chinese tyre factory caused a scandal. The government must uphold the rule of law no matter how attractive the investment, writes Vuk Vuksanovic of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP). 10/12/2021
Hungary Hungarian court avoids ruling on EU law primacy in migration case The Hungarian Constitutional Court said it could not rule on whether EU law took precedence over Hungary's constitution. 10/12/2021
Hungary European Court of Justice: EU law precludes Hungary's supreme court National judges in EU member states cannot be banned from seeking guidance from the European Court of Justice, the ruling stated. 23/11/2021
Poland Poland's judicial appointments process against EU law, rules ECJ The EU's top court has ruled that the Polish government's ability to send judges to higher courts and remove them casts doubts over judicial independence. 16/11/2021
Poland European court urges Poland to address lack of judicial independence The court called on Warsaw to take "rapid action" to resolve the lack of independence in its National Council. 08/11/2021
Poland Poland summons Belgian ambassador in war of words over EU rule of law The dispute centres on comments made by Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo, while responding to his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki. 29/10/2021
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
View Legal row could see Poland become a second-class member of EU | View "The consequences of Warsaw assaulting the EU legal order could be far-reaching, potentially turning Poland into a second-class member of the bloc." 14/10/2021
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
Poland Polexit? Brussels fury as court rules Polish supremacy over EU law The Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw ruled that Polish law has supremacy when it clashes with EU treaties and laws, in a major challenge to the bloc's founding principles. 07/10/2021
Europe News Will the German elections affect the EU's rule of law battle? Politicians in Central and Eastern Europe are apprehensive about the outcome of Germany's vote. 22/09/2021
Poland Poland's top court adjourns case again on whether EU law has primacy The case is seen as critical to the country's future relationship with the rest of the bloc with the legal battle between Brussels and Warsaw stoking fears of a "Polexit". 22/09/2021
