Olga Ceran, Ylenia Guerra
On 15 December 2022, the Council’s suspended various EU budgetary commitments towards Hungary, the first application of the so-called Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation. The measure also froze access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe funds for 21 Hungarian universities that remain under the management of public interest trusts, thereby effectively denying access to these funds to a large pool of scholars and students. The decision raises important questions regarding the scope of protection afforded to final beneficiaries of EU funds. We suggest that a deeper engagement with the rights and interests of final beneficiaries in the context of the Conditionality Regulation necessitates a reconceptualisation of the EU’s understanding of and responsibility for academic freedom.
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Paul Blokker
Kim Lane Scheppele suggests a comprehensive, holistic approach to deal with prominent challenges to the basic principles of the European Union. I very much sympathize with this idea, but believe a purely legal approach in itself is not sufficient (and might even be counter-productive).
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Kim Lane Scheppele
The Tavares Report, adopted by the European Parliament with a surprisingly large majority, provides a bill of particulars against the Hungarian government and lays out a strong program to guide European Union institutions in bringing Hungary back into the European fold. With the passage of this report, Europe has finally said no to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his constitutional revolution.
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Kim Lane Scheppele
The Tavares Report, adopted by the European Parliament with a surprisingly large majority, provides a bill of particulars against the Hungarian government and lays out a strong program to guide European Union institutions in bringing Hungary back into the European fold. With the passage of this report, Europe has finally said no to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his constitutional revolution.
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Jan-Werner Müller
The EU Commission and the EU Parliament seem to be less ineffective than some expected in responding to deteriorations in democracy and rule of law within member states like Hungary. But will such selective pressure suffice? Jan-Werner Müller reports on the most recent developments in Brussels and, in a final contribution to Verfassungsblog's online symposium "Hungary – Taking Action", answers to the critics of his suggestion to install an independent "Copenhagen Commission".
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Jan-Werner Müller
Im Umgang mit Mitgliedsstaaten, in denen Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit ins Rutschen kommen, zeigen sich EU-Kommission und EU-Parlament weniger hilflos und unentschlossen, als manche befürchtet hatten. Doch reicht solch punktueller Druck aus? Jan-Werner Müller berichtet über die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Brüssel und antwortet zum Abschluss des Verfassungsblogs-Symposiums "Ungarn - was tun?" auf die Kritiker seines Vorschlags, als unabhängige Instanz eine "Kopenhagen-Kommission" einzurichten.
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Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov
Following the recent fascinating exchange in the ‘pages’ of the […]
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Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov
Following the recent fascinating exchange in the ‘pages’ of the […]
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Edward Kanterian
Hungary’s political development under the Orbán government is by now […]
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Edward Kanterian
Hungary’s political development under the Orbán government is by now […]
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Matej Avbelj
The constitutional and political developments in Hungary in the last […]
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Matej Avbelj
The constitutional and political developments in Hungary in the last […]
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Claudio Franzius
1. Failings The political actors themselves admit that it was […]
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Claudio Franzius
1. Versäumnisse Von den politischen Akteuren wird eingeräumt, dass es […]
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Marco Dani
Over the last two years, the adoption, implementation and, more […]
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András Jakab
The European Union is not just a community based on […]
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András Jakab
The European Union is not just a community based on […]
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Jan Komárek
Jan-Werner Müller’s eloquent proposal on what the EU should do […]
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Jan Komárek
Jan-Werner Müller’s eloquent proposal on what the EU should do […]
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Floris de Witte
While I share Müller’s concern about the situation in Hungary […]
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Floris de Witte
While I share Müller’s concern about the situation in Hungary […]
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Kalypso Nicolaidis
As we all know, observance of the “Rule of Law” […]
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Kalypso Nicolaidis
As we all know, observance of the “Rule of Law” […]
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Jan-Werner Müller
Could there be a dictatorship inside the European Union? If […]
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Jan-Werner Müller
Kann es innerhalb der Europäischen Union eine Diktatur geben? Vor […]
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Maximilian Steinbeis
The Hungarian Parliament has enacted a package of constitutional amendments […]
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Maximilian Steinbeis
Am Montag hat das ungarische Parlament ein Paket von Verfassungsänderungen […]
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