http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210421-180845-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/repubblika/ Repubblika: Anything new under the Maltese Sun? Leloup, Mathieu eng 2021-04-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Judicial appointment Malta Republikka Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 By now, the rule of law and the principle of judicial independence are a continuous presence in the ECJ’s case law. Most often, these cases concerned the situation in Poland or Hungary. The case of Repubblika, for a change, concerned Malta. In Repubblika, the Court has added Article 49 TEU to the list of EU law provisions that are invoked in the fight against rule of law backsliding.