nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170303-131734 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170303s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170303-131734 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1608-1285 Poland and the European Commission, Part III: Requiem for the Rule of Law Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2017-03-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 20 February 2017, the Polish government has replied to the European Commission’s rule of law findings. That reply is so clearly absurd, rude and full of ‘alternative facts’ that the case to trigger the sanction mechanism in Art 7 TEU promptly is more compelling than ever. It is time for Member State governments to get their act together and make explicit their disapproval of a government that finds it acceptable not only to violate its national Constitution and EU values in plain sight but also to bully and disrespect EU representatives such as Frans Timmermans and Donald Tusk. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Capture EU Commission EU rule of law framework European Council Systemic Infringement Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/poland-and-the-european-commission-part-iii-requiem-for-the-rule-of-law/ raw object