http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20191126-002348-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-tyranny-of-values-or-the-tyranny-of-one-party-states/ The Tyranny of Values or the Tyranny of One-Party States? Scheppele, Kim Lane Halmai, Gábor ger 2019-11-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 EU rule of law framework Rule of Law rule of law crisis von der Leyen Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 In his contribution ‘Fundamentals on Defending European Values,’ Armin von Bogdandy counsels caution. His arguments are wise in normal times. But we no longer live in normal times. The current governments of at least two EU Member States, Hungary and Poland, are engaged in normative freelancing with the explicit aim of making future democratic rotation impossible. The rogue governments we see today are undermining the values of the European Union when the EU is more popular in these Member States than their own governments are.