Soft Law, Hard Consequences
Recommendations from the EU Council play a much bigger role in shaping national law than they should.
Recommendations from the EU Council play a much bigger role in shaping national law than they should.
Polish conservatives describe the arrest of Marcin Romanowski as a calculated act of intimidation.
Conservative lawmakers from around Europe back resolutions accusing the Polish government of violating the rule of law.
For all its talk of rule of law and democracy, the EU appears determined to ‘fix’ its broken migration system by politically punishing the very countries that have done the most to prevent the problem. Later this week, we’ll find out how European leaders who disagree with this process intend to push back.
Almost without notice, the EU Council forced the bloc’s opposed member states to join the controversial gender violence treaty.
“This trend of [the ECHR] exceeding its jurisdiction represents a severe threat to democracy,” Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș told The European Conservative.
Afraid that any more recognition would only embolden their own ethnic minorities, seven countries, including Spain, voted against Kosovo’s CoE admission. Another five, including Ukraine, chose to abstain.
When it comes to the EU’s China policy, the seeming dissonance between Macron’s appeasement and von der Leyen’s hawkishness is in fact a well-rehearsed symbiosis.
While Britain is not part of EU institutions, the criticism by the CoE will rightly be seen by many Brexiters as yet another attempt to undermine the UK’s sovereignty post-Brexit.
“Asking the Council of Europe to institute reform and correct direction is really like asking the proverbial fox to guard the hen house,” Dr. Joanna Williams, the author of the report argued.
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