nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211014-165321-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211014s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211014-165321-0 doi eng 342 23 Morijn, John Author aut A Closing of Ranks - 5 key moments in the hearing in Cases C-156/21 and C-157/21  Morijn, John Verfassungsblog 2021-10-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 11 and 12 October the Court of Justice of the European Union sat in Full Court composition (a rarity) to hear Hungary’s and Poland’s challenge of the legality of the rule of law conditionality regulation. Its ruling will follow (hopefully shortly) the Advocate-General’s Opinion announced for 2 December 2021. It will most likely reconfirm that the Union legal order is based on clear and binding rule of law norms, and that these must, of legal necessity, apply across all EU policy fields, including the EU budget. It will be a judgment of great significance about the very nature and purpose of the EU. CC BY-SA 4.0 Art. 7 TEU ECJ Rule of Law Mechanism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-closing-of-ranks/ raw object