http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201209-190601-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-novel-reinforced-cooperation-in-the-eu/ A Novel “Reinforced Cooperation” in the EU Luckner, Johannes Graf von eng 2020-12-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 After years of passiveness about the eroding rule of law in several of its Member States (MS), the Union paved the way for a conditionality mechanism, binding the disbursement of EU funds to rule of law criteria. The Polish and Hungarian vetoes against the mechanism could be circumvented if “reinforced cooperation” was to mean “enhanced cooperation”. It could be a solution for Member States to get most of the advantages of NextGenEU without sacrificing a rule of law conditionality or their reinforced sense of solidarity.