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🇧🇪⚖️Wednesdays are increasingly becoming the rule of law days. Hot on the heels of the Commission taking action on Poland, a court in Brussels orders the Belgian government to immediately lift all covid-19 emergency measures or pay a fine for every day of delay in doing so. (1/6)
Reasons? Legality - the measures were introduced by means of decrees of the government, not via law enacted by the parliament. The government is to provide an accurate legal basis for the measures or ... face a not exactly excessive fine of 5k EUR daily, up to 200k EUR. (2/6)
But the real point here is - countries worldwide, including developed, lawful democracies, have resorted to limiting rights and freedoms via secondary legislation. Poland is another example of this practice, as most restrictions are imposed via governmental decrees. (3/6)
