nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210421-180845-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210421s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210421-180845-0 doi eng 342 23 Leloup, Mathieu Author aut Repubblika: Anything new under the Maltese Sun? The ECJ rules on the system of the appointment of judges in Malta Leloup, Mathieu Verfassungsblog 2021-04-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Judicial appointment Malta Republikka Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/repubblika/ raw object