nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181115-215538-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181112s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181115-215538-0 doi eng 342 23 Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Never Missing an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity: The Council Legal Service Opinion on the Commission’s EU budget-related rule of law mechanism Scheppele, Kim Lane Verfassungsblog 2018-11-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Regrettably, we need to add the Council’s Legal Service to the list of key EU actors that seem intent on ignoring the existential threat to the Union posed by the spreading rule of law rot amongst EU member governments. In a (non-public) opinion on the proposed regulation of the Commission to create rule of law conditionality in the multi-annual financial framework adopted on 25 October 2018, the CLS indeed put forward multiple unpersuasive legal arguments to claim that the Commission’s proposal cannot be adopted. With this opinion, the CLS is advising the Council to actually prevent other institutions of the EU from doing their job to uphold and defend the set of common values on which the EU is based. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 7 TEU EU rule of law framework Rule of Law Pech, Laurent Author aut Kelemen, R. Daniel Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/never-missing-an-opportunity-to-miss-an-opportunity-the-council-legal-service-opinion-on-the-commissions-eu-budget-related-rule-of-law-mechanism/ raw object