European Union values, Rule of Law and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 The Commission’s Proposal to protect the EU budget against threats to the Rule of Law

This article examines the Commission’s proposal to strengthen the protection of the Rule of law in EU Member States through a new mechanism making EU funding conditional on a certain level of respect for the Rule of law. This mechanism proposed as part of the new MFF package is presented rather tech...

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Published inERA-Forum Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 287 - 294
Main Author Rangel de Mesquita, Maria José
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2018
Subjects
European Integration
Law
Law and Criminology
Political Science
Public International Law
financial sanctions
Rule of law
Member States
Article 7 TEU
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Summary:This article examines the Commission’s proposal to strengthen the protection of the Rule of law in EU Member States through a new mechanism making EU funding conditional on a certain level of respect for the Rule of law. This mechanism proposed as part of the new MFF package is presented rather technically as a tool ‘to protect the EU budget from financial risks linked to generalised deficiencies as regards the RoL’, but it is apparently meant to complement the procedure foreseen in Article 7 TEU which is considered insufficiently effective. The article concludes that the newly proposed mechanism gives a strong role to the Commission which would be in a key position to impose sanctions which would bypass the Article 7 procedure in a way difficult to reconcile with primary law.
ISSN:1612-3093
1863-9038
DOI:10.1007/s12027-018-0523-6