nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200903-183838-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200903s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200903-183838-0 doi eng 342 23 It’s Urgent - The Illegal Appointment of a New Advocate General and What Can be Done to Uphold the Rule of Law in the EU Verfassungsblog 2020-09-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In a remarkable move, the Member States appointed, on 2 September 2020, an Advocate General put forward by Greece, who will enter into office on 7 September 2020 if Member States get their way. There is a ginormous problem with this move, as the office that this Advocate General will try to fill, as things stand, does not become vacant until October 2021. Eleanor Sharpston, the officeholder presently in situ, remains there until then. Any other reading of EU law is tantamount to the Member States sacking a member of the Court in direct violation of the primary law. This is a wholly unacceptable scenario in a Union grounded and predicated upon the rule of law. Urgent measures are thus necessary to save not only the legitimacy of the Court, but that of the EU. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston EU Law Rule of Law Butler, Graham Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/its-urgent/ raw object