The fall of the rule of law and democracy in Hungary and the complicity of the EU
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Robert BOTTNER and Hermann-Josef BLANKE (eds), The rule of law under threat : eroding institutions and European remedies, Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, Elgar studies in European law and policy, pp. 53-75
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HALMAI, Gábor, The fall of the rule of law and democracy in Hungary and the complicity of the EU, in Robert BOTTNER and Hermann-Josef BLANKE (eds), The rule of law under threat : eroding institutions and European remedies, Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, Elgar studies in European law and policy, pp. 53-75 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77849
Abstract
Hungary, once the pioneer of liberal democratic transition, became the first authoritarian Member State of the European Union. However, the last almost one and a half decades has shown that the EU has been unable to prevent or counter this situation. Not because it has no effective legal tools, such as the triggering of Article 7 TEU against the country in 2018, but because it lacks the political willingness to use them against a rogue government. Even the newly introduced economic conditionality mechanism is burdened with a number of bad compromises. How could this happen within the European community, built on the values of democracy and the rule of law, and has not the EU been complicit?
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Published online: 07 June 2024