nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20161115-144944 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 161115s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20161115-144944 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1608-1285 The EU and Poland: Giving up on the Rule of Law? Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2016-11-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With an off-hand remark in a Belgian newspaper, President Juncker has called off the EU Commission's effort to pressure Poland into following the rule of law. If he went through with this, he would not only pull the rug from under his own First Vice President Timmermans and spare the national governments the necessity to live up to their responsibilities. The Commission President deciding that the slide of a member state into authoritarianism is not his business, with a Trump Presidency in the US coming, forgoes the European Union's claim to be capable of fulfilling its leadership role in the world. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Authoritarianism EU rule of law framework Jean Claude Juncker Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-and-poland-giving-up-on-the-rule-of-law/ raw object