Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Author aut Text xx# 2016 Verfassungsblog 2016-01-25 eng

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Studying Soviet legal theory is probably one of the most tedious activities imaginable, but it can teach us a great deal, sadly, about the contemporary reality in some of the Member States of the EU: a reality captured by Uładzisłaŭ Belavusaŭ’s catchy phrase ‘Belarusization’ of the EU with enviable precision. Not a single person familiar with the basics of the principle of the Rule of Law could possibly be in doubt that what is going on in Poland now is a partly Soviet-style dismantlement of the Western values of democracy and the Rule of Law. By having started its famed Pre-Article 7 Procedure against Poland the Commission made four drastic mistakes and did not move any closer to stopping Polish backsliding. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich funded by the government Belarusization Copenhagen Criteria EU Commission Rule of Law 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-commission-vs-poland-the-sovereign-state-is-winning-1-0/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20160126-172908 160125 10.17176/20160126-172908 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)