The new agreement on the rule of law conditionality: a possible solution?

13 November 2020 European Politics

6 min

After years of institutional debate on how to combat rule of law backsliding within the European Union, the European Parliament has reached an agreement with the Council linking EU funds to rule of law compliance. This means that the European Union will stop funding those national governments that threaten the rule of law, with the aim to get them to respect fundamental values listed in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union. This may not put an end to the problem the EU is currently facing vis-à-vis Hungary and Poland, but it represents a step torwards triggering further initiatives and maybe future reforms to the Treaties’ acquis.

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Pologne: Récupération politique de la crise pour criminaliser l’avortement

10 August 2020 Society

3 min

La loi anti-avortement en Pologne est déjà une des plus restrictives d’Europe. En effet, l’avortement n’est légal que dans 3 cas : s’il y a malformation grave du fœtus, en cas de danger pour la femme et enfin, en cas de viol ou d’inceste. Pourtant, alors que tous les yeux sont rivés sur la pandémie du coronavirus, la Pologne se divise sur la question de l’avortement.

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Digit@l Friends – Poland’s First Youth Culture Centre

14 December 2018 Partners/external Society

This interview has originally been published by Euro Babble and is made by Dominik Kirchdorfer. Digit@l Friends is the first youth café in the Warsaw landscape. They call it a cafe, and others call it […]

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From Brussels to Warsaw: is Donald Tusk launching his presidential campaign?

5 January 2018 Society

Donald Tusk’s mandate as the President of the European Council will end in November 2019 whereas the Polish presidential election will take place in 2020. Recently, political events in Poland […]

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Air poll-EU-tion: we are what we breathe

28 November 2017 European institutions

Can you imagine living in a city where the simple fact of being there would mean smoking 4000 cigarettes yearly? Actually, maybe you do live in this city without even […]

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Poland and the EU: a time of continuous confrontation?

23 September 2017 Other articles

Poland is once again at the heart of a disagreement with the European Union, not long after the controversy over the judicial reforms and still being in conflict regarding the […]

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