nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160331-132159 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160331s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160331-132159 doi eng 342 23 von Bogdandy, Armin Author aut How to protect European Values in the Polish Constitutional Crisis von Bogdandy, Armin Verfassungsblog 2016-03-31 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Does the Polish development concern us — the European citizens and the European institutions we have set up? There is a functional and a normative argument to state that it does. The normative argument is that the European Union organizes a community of states that profess allegiance to a set of fundamental values—among others, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights. The functional reason is that the European legal space presupposes mutual trust. European law operates on the presumption that all institutions are law-abiding. Otherwise, the legal edifice crumbles. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 7 EU EU rule of law framework European Legal Space European Values Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-to-protect-european-values-in-the-polish-constitutional-crisis/ raw object