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This week's meeting of the European Council has rightly been called the "Apocalypse Day summit". He has been overshadowed not only by a terrifying wave of new Covid-19 infections earlier this winter, the prospect of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, but also by a showdown with the governments of Hungary and Poland, which have taken hundreds of millions of people hostage, threatening to veto the European Union budget for 2021-2027, as well as the pandemic recovery fund. Hungary and Poland are trying to block the adoption of a new "rule of law" mechanism that would prevent the EU from taking money for corrupt purposes. This is a practice for which the kleptocratic regime of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban is known.
As the longest-serving prime minister Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data in the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has intervened to try to end this stalemate, calling on "all parties" to prepare "for some kind of compromise". But why should the EU compromise on such a fundamental value as the rule of law (provided in the Lisbon Treaty), and why should EU taxpayers agree that their hard-earned euros enrich authoritarian leaders and their friends? Read also: Euro 2024/ Nagelsmann ready to exclude some stars for Euro 2024, the names come out After Trump's statements, debate on strengthening the Bundeswehr Instead of trusting Merkel to broker a deal, Europeans should remind her that this is her last chance for the chancellor to prove that she really cares about democracy and the rule of law.
Above all, it was Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, that enabled Orbán to establish his autocracy. And it is her chosen candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who has failed to protect the independence of the Polish judiciary from the government of the chauvinist, populist and increasingly challenging Law and Justice in Poland (PiS) party. ).The "crisis of the rule of law" in Europe has seemed increasingly abstract and less urgent than other challenges during the long reign of Merkel, who has taken on the management of the euro crisis, the refugee crisis in 2015 and now of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the longest-serving prime minister Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data in the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has intervened to try to end this stalemate, calling on "all parties" to prepare "for some kind of compromise". But why should the EU compromise on such a fundamental value as the rule of law (provided in the Lisbon Treaty), and why should EU taxpayers agree that their hard-earned euros enrich authoritarian leaders and their friends? Read also: Euro 2024/ Nagelsmann ready to exclude some stars for Euro 2024, the names come out After Trump's statements, debate on strengthening the Bundeswehr Instead of trusting Merkel to broker a deal, Europeans should remind her that this is her last chance for the chancellor to prove that she really cares about democracy and the rule of law.
Above all, it was Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, that enabled Orbán to establish his autocracy. And it is her chosen candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who has failed to protect the independence of the Polish judiciary from the government of the chauvinist, populist and increasingly challenging Law and Justice in Poland (PiS) party. ).The "crisis of the rule of law" in Europe has seemed increasingly abstract and less urgent than other challenges during the long reign of Merkel, who has taken on the management of the euro crisis, the refugee crisis in 2015 and now of the Covid-19 pandemic.