nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180910-094901-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180910s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180910-094901-0 doi eng 342 23 Kelemen, R. Daniel Author aut How to Stop Funding Autocracy in the EU Kelemen, R. Daniel Verfassungsblog 2018-09-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The EU finds itself in the perverse situation of providing some of the largest transfers of funds precisely to those governments who most prominently thumb their nose at its democratic and rule-of-law norms. The legal debate about this misses the fact that the EU already has a sufficient legal basis to suspend the flow of funds to states in which rule-of-law norms are systematically violated. The real problem to date has not been the lack of adequate legal tools, but the lack of political will on the part of the European Commission to use the tools that already exist. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Jean Claude Juncker Political Rule of Law Enforcement Viktor Orban Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/how-to-stop-funding-autocracy-in-the-eu/ raw object