1. Very proud to have coauthored this report on the legal case for activating the rule of law conditionality Regulation against Hungary with Kim Scheppele and @JMorijn, at the request of @daniel_freund & @GreensEFA. Quick 🧵below & here is the report 👉 danielfreund.eu/wp-content/upl…
2. Essentially, we did the @EU_Commission's work for it. We drafted a model "notification" under Article 6(1) of the Rule of Law Conditionality regulation, which is the first step the Commission must take to trigger the regulation with respect to a member state
3. The @EU_Commission is supposed to send such a notification to a member state when it determines that breaches of rule of law principles affect or seriously risk affecting the management of the EU budget or the financial interests of the Union
4. We present the legal case that this serious risk already exists in Hungary because Hungary has already engaged in grave breaches of the rule of law as defined in the Regulation. So the @EU_Commission should trigger it immediately.
5. This graphic in the report summarizes the case. The key violations in Hungary concern lack of transparent management of EU funds, lack of effective national prosecution service to prosecute fraud, & lack of guarantee of independent courts to ensure EU law is enforced 
6. In addition to the model notification, the report also contains a background discussion with illustrations of ongoing corruption of EU funds in Hungary & a legal appendix with an extensive analysis of the Regulation & how it relates to other EU instruments
7. @EU_Commission doesn't need to draft any "guidelines" before it can apply the Reg & it doesn't need to await @EUCourtPress rulings in HU & PL's ridiculous annulment actions. The Regulation can be applied today. @EU_Commission is free to copy our model & email it to Orban
8. Glad to see lots of press coverage of the report already such as here... ft.com/content/4d7958…
9. and here...theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
10. und hier... spiegel.de/ausland/ungarn…
11. und hier... tagesspiegel.de/politik/europa…
12. und hier... derstandard.at/story/20001280…
13. és itt... nepszava.hu/3125540_brussz…
14. Lots more press coverage to come today hopefully. Thanks again to @daniel_freund & @GreensEFA for this initiative and for the other Europarty rapporteurs on this file @petrisarvamaa @EGardiazabal & @katka_cseh for their support. Great that the @Europarl_EN keeps up pressure!
15. Finally & most importantly deep thanks to the many Hungarian legal experts & NGOs who kindly provided advice to us in writing this report. 🙏 Not sure I should mention them by name w/o permission - as they might then be targeted by the Orban autocracy. END
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