nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200203-230128-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200203s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200203-230128-0 doi eng 342 23 Breuer, Marten Author aut The Struggle of Strasbourg The Council of Europe’s Response to Rule of Law Backsliding and Serious Violations of Fundamental Principles Breuer, Marten Verfassungsblog 2020-02-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier This year’s Winter Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) saw three distinct yet interrelated developments. On Tuesday, the Assembly decided to open a monitoring procedure with regard to Poland on behalf of the ongoing rule of law backsliding. On Wednesday, the Assembly decided to ratify the credentials of the Russian delegates which had previously been challenged both on procedural and on substantive grounds. Still on Wednesday, the Assembly backed the proposal for the introduction of a new ‘complementary joint procedure’, together with the Committee of Ministers, in response to violations of fundamental principles underlying the work of the organisation. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Council of Europe Democratic Backsliding Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-struggle-of-strasbourg/ raw object