http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200503-013219-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/economic-interests-and-the-rule-of-law-crisis-in-the-eu/ Economic Interests and the Rule of Law Crisis in the EU Kazai, Viktor Z. eng 2020-05-02 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Hungary Poland Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Legal scholarship needs to be more open to the political reality in order to effectively tackle the rule of law crisis. To go one step further, I argue that without considering the economic interests of all the relevant individual and institutional actors (corporations and governments) we will never fully understand the failures of the EU responses to the rule of law backsliding.