nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/71a7e156be640f03 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240219s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/71a7e156be640f03 doi eng 342 23 Díez Sarasola, Mikel Author aut EU’s Involvement in the Renewal of the Spanish Council of the Judiciary - The European Commission’s New Role as an Intermediary in the Internal Constitutional Affairs of the Member States Díez Sarasola, Mikel Verfassungsblog 2024-02-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The growing political polarization of Western liberal democracies often leads to situations of political deadlock that require the intervention of an external authority capable of untangling the knot. After the second (fruitless) meeting held today between Commissioner Reynders and representatives of the Spanish government and the main opposition party, there is no simple solution in sight to an issue of the renewal of the Spanish Council of the Judiciary with significant implications for the immediate future of the Spanish political scenario. In this blog, I argue that underneath all the technical layers of legal order invoked under the generic defence of the rule of law, there are political and democratic debates for which the EU may play an important yet uncertain and questionable role. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU EU Rule of Law Spain Spanien Spanish Council of the Judiciary (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU (DE-588)4055964-6 gnd Spanien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/renewal-of-the-judiciary/ raw object