nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f2922d32b8eacc30 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231214s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f2922d32b8eacc30 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1608-1285 The Future of the Rule of Law in the EU Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2023-12-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With systemic threats to and violations of the rule of law not subsiding, notwithstanding the expected end of backsliding in the case of Poland, the future of the rule of law in the EU is likely to be one of retrenchment accompanied by increased gaslighting to mask an increased gap between EU rhetoric and EU action. This means that the Commission’s decision to unlock € 10 bn of EU funding previously frozen on rule of law grounds to “sway Viktor Orbán on Ukraine” should not be seen as a once-off aberration but as prefiguration of a new abnormal normal. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Commission EU Council Europarecht Europäische Kommission | Luxemburg (Stadt) Brüssel Hungary Pech Laurent | Jurist Poland Rule of Law (DE-588)4153206-5 gnd Europarecht (DE-588)1024466-9 gnd Europäische Kommission | Luxemburg (Stadt) Brüssel (DE-588)1153745054 gnd Pech Laurent | Jurist Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-future-of-the-rule-of-law-in-the-eu/ raw object