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

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 Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-02-19 eng 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 Díez Sarasola, Mikel EU EU Rule of Law Spain Spanien Spanish Council of the Judiciary EU Spanien 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/renewal-of-the-judiciary/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/71a7e156be640f03 240219 10.59704/71a7e156be640f03 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)