http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211223-004332-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/handle-with-care/ Handle with Care - On the Contextual Preconditions of Rule of Law Restoration Iancu, Bogdan eng 2021-12-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Reset Constitutional restoration Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 I will, in what follows, seek to answer the overarching question of this symposium, starting from a cautionary Romanian rule of law (RoL) reform tale. Other things being equal, its lessons may be extrapolated to the specific case of hopefully post-Orbánite Hungary. The specific context of Hungary presents, at least apparently, the Romanian problem in reverse, namely, the transition from an authoritarian nationalist regime to a pluralist, European, rule of law order.