nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220707-172741-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220707s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220707-172741-0 doi eng 342 23 Cotter, John Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-1285-0937 Untying the Ties that (don’t) Bind - The European Council’s Discretion to Exclude Democratically Unaccountable Representatives Cotter, John Verfassungsblog 2022-07-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In his letter to MEP Daniel Freund of 17 June 2022, European Council President Charles Michel argued that neither he, as President, nor the European Council have the power to exclude democratically unaccountable representatives of a Member State from that institution. But President Michel’s apparent recourse to a literal reading of Article 15(2) TEU – which fails to consider its relationship with other provisions relating to the composition of the European Council – is not convincing. CC BY-SA 4.0 Article 265 TFEU Babis Charles Michel EU European Council Orban Rule of Law Wagenknecht Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/untying-the-ties-that-dont-bind/ raw object