nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200906-004931-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200906s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200906-004931-0 doi eng 342 23 It’s Urgent II The EU General Court temporarily suspends the attempted appointment of a new Advocate General Verfassungsblog 2020-09-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On Friday 4 September 2020, Judge Anthony Collins of the General Court has ordered the suspension of operation and all consequential effects of the Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, in so far as it purports to appoint Mr. Athanasios Rantos to the position of Advocate General of the Court of Justice. The significance of this development for the independence of the judiciary in the EU and the general articulation of the rule of law in Europe is difficult to overestimate. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ECJ Eleanor Sharpston judicial independence Rule of Law Butler, Graham Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/its-urgent-ii/ raw object