nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170206-141438 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 150120s2015||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.17176/20170206-141438 doi ger 342 23 Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Author aut From bad to worse? On the Commission and the Council’s rule of law initiatives Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Verfassungsblog 2015-01-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The rule of law is one of the fundamental values on which the EU is founded according to Article 2 TEU. Faced with a rising number of ‘rule of law crises’ in a number of EU countries, the Commission adopted a new ‘pre-Article 7’ procedure last March in order to address any instance where there is a evidence of a systemicthreat to the rule of law. Having criticised the Commission’s initiative primarily on the (unconvincing) ground that it would breach the principle of conferral which governs the allocation of powers between the EU and its Member States, the Council proposed its own solution: a rule of law dialogue between national governments and to be held once a year in Brussels. Both initiatives, and in particular, the Council’s, appear grossly inadequate to tackle the problem of ‘rule of law backsliding post EU accession’ to quote Frans Timmermans, the First Vice-President of the Commission in charge inter alia of the Rule of Law. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Pech, Laurent Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/bad-worse-commission-councils-rule-law-initiatives/ raw object