nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170103-113741 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170103s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170103-113741 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut Poland and the European Commission, Part I: A Dialogue of the Deaf? Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2017-01-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 21 December 2016, the European Commission adopted an additional Recommendation regarding the rule of law in Poland. Rather than starting the Article 7 sanctioning process, the Commission merely reiterated its old demands, added some new concerns and again held out the threat of Article 7 while apparently moving no closer to actually starting a sanctioning process. It is not that the Commission was unaware of what was happening in Poland. In December, the Commission stood by and watched the Polish government capture the Constitutional Tribunal. The new Recommendation indicates that the Commission simply chose not to act to head off the final stages of the Tribunal’s demise. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 7 TEU EU Commission EU rule of law framework Majoritarianism Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/poland-and-the-european-commission-part-i-a-dialogue-of-the-deaf/ raw object