The Illegal Appointment of a New Advocate General and What Can be Done to Uphold the Rule of Law in the EU Butler, Graham Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-09-03 eng

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In a remarkable move, the Member States appointed, on 2 September 2020, an Advocate General put forward by Greece, who will enter into office on 7 September 2020 if Member States get their way. There is a ginormous problem with this move, as the office that this Advocate General will try to fill, as things stand, does not become vacant until October 2021. Eleanor Sharpston, the officeholder presently in situ, remains there until then. Any other reading of EU law is tantamount to the Member States sacking a member of the Court in direct violation of the primary law. This is a wholly unacceptable scenario in a Union grounded and predicated upon the rule of law. Urgent measures are thus necessary to save not only the legitimacy of the Court, but that of the EU. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 funded by the government Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston EU Law Rule of Law 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/its-urgent/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20200903-183838-0 200903 10.17176/20200903-183838-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)