Protecting the Rule of Law in the EU: Germany’s Council Presidency must secure both the EU’s budget and its credibility

Natasha Wunsch (1)

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Protecting the rule of law among member states is one of the EU’s main challenges today. Yet, divergent interpretations of the recent European Council summit’s compromise jeopardize the introduction of a new rule of law mechanism. The brief recommends that the German Council Presidency must work towards concretizing and depoliticizing the agreed conditionality regime for EU funds.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Natasha Wunsch. Protecting the Rule of Law in the EU: Germany’s Council Presidency must secure both the EU’s budget and its credibility. 2020. ⟨hal-02978135⟩