"To continue to engage at length with X is to enable this cycle of behavior. You can count me out" & find me instead on🦋 https://t.co/0mOE7kp499

President Biden ups the ante for November: Rein in SCOTUS and POTUS — or let both go rogue and destroy both democracy and law. https://t.co/cwl8M1WlaX

EU's (enforcement) reaction to date: zero infringement action launched & zero 💶 suspended tbomk but multiple expressions of "concerns" and possibly "serious concerns"

"With regard to Bulgaria, the EU Commission has a long history of seeing progress when the #ruleoflaw was under assault ... Sadly, in the Rule of Law reports, the EU Commission continues to make seemingly politically motivated decisions" Same re Romania. All to justify end of CVM

"it is hard to imagine Giorgia Meloni will be persuaded to change her ways by the ARoLR’s at times critical, at times more conciliatory assessment, which mostly avoided directly pointing the finger at the ruling coalition’s responsibility in worsening the state of the #ruleoflaw"

Reminder: Commission has completely failed to enforce EU rule of law requirements, including in face of repeated and open violations of CJEU rule of law related rulings in 🇷🇴 Instead we got end of special RoL mechanism and reality disconnected RoL country report this month

The new issue of The Tocqueville Review: out now 🎉 Articles from leading experts about the rise of democratic illiberalism across Europe and the West @utpjournals 📚 https://t.co/i6gxMQheDd

First CJEU ruling clarifying extent to which EU #ruleoflaw requirements/Art 19 TEU constrain national procedures for selecting/proposing candidates to CJEU. Convincing on jurisdiction, less so on substance re this stage (what’s point of ranking candidates if this can be ignored)

EU Commission's annual #ruleoflaw report: "inclusion of certain enlargement countries" such as #Serbia "reflects the progress made in their respective accession process or advancement as regards their level of preparedness on rule of law" Real world... https://t.co/YozxxTlIpd

For those following Hungary, here's a flashing red light. Hungarian 'sovereignty' is now in debt to China in a deal protected by state secrets.

Comm's 68% claim is just bogus. I mean even Comm accepts in a fn that this reflects "some progress" (*left undefined*) on 50% of its recommendations. More evidence of unhealthy consequence of increased politicisation of #ruleoflaw toolbox & VDL desperation to claim RoL "wins"

🗞️ Hot off the press: The EU Commission fails to unlock the Rule of Law Report’s full potential The @EU_Commission's fifth annual Rule of Law report is out. Here's our immediate take on it, with a detailed gap analysis coming in September. #ROLReport24 #EU #RuleofLaw 1/7

🔥SCOOP The @EU_Commission does not rule out applying the horizontal enabling conditions and suspending further cohesion funding to #Hungary because of the law on the protection of sovereignty, which violates the Charter of Fundamental Rights on several points, @nepszava reports

"The Hungarian government “forgot” to mention the loan in its official communication before the 9 June European parliamentary and municipal elections." In other news,

NEW: "Autocracy vs. Democracy?" The latest issue of The Tocqueville Review | La revue Tocqueville is available online! 📚@utpjournals It builds upon last year's conference in Paris with Jan-Werner-Müller, Pascal Ory and many more ⬇️ https://t.co/i6gxMQheDd

I am aware that being the sole & only true representative of THE PEOPLE is a hard work, but actually it is interesting to see the two, perhaps most #populist EU politicians in power, 🇭🇺 PM #ViktorOrbán & 🇸🇰 PM #RobertFico, being the least egalitarian EU leaders & earning the most

"This report does not objectively reflect the situation of judiciary in Romania" This is unfortunately correct & part of a broader pattern whereby the EU Commission just looks the other way whenever it would be politically costly to uphold the #ruleoflaw

Yeah, sure, but the rise of the AfD is partially self-inflicted harm. The system should have screened out the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, who was supposed to go after extremists, but turned out to be an extremist (enabler).