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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200903-183838-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/its-urgent/ 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 Butler, Graham eng 2020-09-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston EU Law Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 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.