Great piece by @zosiawanat & @liliebayer on latest developments re rule of law conditionality regulation. 👇 Quick 🧵 w/ additional points: 1. These “letters” are yet another stalling tactic by the @vonderleyen Commission, used to distract from its failure to trigger the reg
https://twitter.com/zosiawanat/status/1461639470655188993
2. Sending such letters is not a required step in the regulation. @EU_Commission could have triggered the regulation with a notification immediately after it came into force
3. The @EU_Commission’s announcement that it won’t apply the regulation until after the ECJ rules on the challenges govts of HU & PL brought against the law is illegal. Pending annulment actions DO NOT suspend the legal applicability of a regulation!
4. At the request of @GreensEFA @JMorijn, Scheppele, & I already wrote a model “notification” under the reg against Hungary- a doc the @EU_Commission could have cut and pasted from and sent to Orban months ago: danielfreund.eu/rule-of-law-st…
5. The rule of law rapporteurs from @GreensEFA @EPPGroup @TheProgressives & @RenewEurope - the very people who coauthored the regulation- all the endorsed our report at a press conference in July. A serious guardian of the treaties would have triggered the reg then
6. In short, the @vonderleyen Commission will try to spin these “letters” as important action under the reg, but really they are yet another stalling tactic to help excuse @EU_Commission’s failure to enforce the reg & defend EU’s financial interests against these regimes. END.
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