
SAFE: European Union’s New Lever of Political Control?
The defence loan plan becomes another extra-treaty instrument of influence, using debt and budgetary leverage to shape national policy, Polish legal analysts say.

The defence loan plan becomes another extra-treaty instrument of influence, using debt and budgetary leverage to shape national policy, Polish legal analysts say.

Former Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, who played a central role in politically motivated infringement proceedings against the conservative governments of Poland and Hungary, is now accused of having concealed hundreds of thousands of euros that he may have illegally obtained.

The lawsuit of the European Parliament against the Commission exposes the two-faced nature of the EU’s rule-of-law conditionality policy.