nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20171124-125506 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 171124s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20171124-125506 doi eng 342 23 Sarmiento, Daniel Author aut Provisional (And Extraordinary) Measures in the Name of the Rule of Law Sarmiento, Daniel Verfassungsblog 2017-11-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The showdown was inevitable. At some point, the Court of Justice had to show its teeth and remind the Polish government of its duty to comply with the rule of law and with the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU. For the Member States of the EU, the rule of law is not an option. You either take it or leave it (and thus leave the EU). However, Poland’s late attitude towards EU integration, happily accepting the money from EU funds but showing its back on the fundamental values of the EU, was inevitably going to be confronted, sooner or later, at the Court of Justice. If the showdown was predictable, the surprise has been that it has all happened so quickly, so frontally and… in interim relief procedures in an infringement action against Poland. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 2 TEU Systemic Infringement Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/provisional-and-extraordinary-measures-in-the-name-of-the-rule-of-law/ raw object