Too Little, Too Late - The Commission’s New Annual Rule of Law Report and the Rule of Law Backsliding in Hungary and Poland

Too Little, Too Late - The Commission’s New Annual Rule of Law Report and the Rule of Law Backsliding in Hungary and Poland Priebus, Sonja Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-10-02 eng On 30 September, the European Commission has finally presented its long-awaited first edition of the new Annual Rule of Law Report, assessing the situation of the rule of law in all member states. In cases like Hungary and Poland, where the rule of law and democracy have been deliberately dismantled over the years, this monitoring approach, however, will hardly help. The report is unfortunately too little, too late. Instead, the EU needs to strengthen its enforcement capacity by linking breaches of the rule of law with actual sanctions. CC BY-SA 4.0 Priebus, Sonja Hungary Poland rule of law backsliding Rule of Law Report 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/too-little-too-late/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20201002-124719-0 201002 10.17176/20201002-124719-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)