Protecting Democracy and the Rule of Law inside the EU, or: Why Europe Needs a Copenhagen Commission
Could there be a dictatorship inside the European Union? If such a spectre appeared, should Brussels somehow step in to shore up democracy? Or would this constitute an illegitimate form of meddling in the domestic affairs of countries which, after all, have delegated only specific powers to Europe – and not empowered Brussels to lecture Europeans from Lapland to Lampedusa on how popular rule is correctly understood, let alone to be a policeman for liberal democracy across the European continent? All these are no longer theoretical questions: recent developments in Romani and especially in Hungary have put such challenges squarely ... continue reading
