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RULE OF LAW UPDATE: The EU again goes on the offensive on 'Rule of Law' concerns.
MEPs debated and voted on the EU's annual 'Rule of Law report' – the EU's version of the naughty list.
Here what you need to know 🧵 1/5
MEPs debated and voted on the EU's annual 'Rule of Law report' – the EU's version of the naughty list.
Here what you need to know 🧵 1/5
Despite ‘Rule of Law’ advocates supposedly caring about murky financial relationships, the resolution called for more funding for NGOs.
Is this an attempt to clean up the EU, or ensure an endless supply of money for lobbyists?
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Is this an attempt to clean up the EU, or ensure an endless supply of money for lobbyists?
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Despite the revelations of #Qatargate about the dangerous relationships between the EU & NGOs, MEPs are doubling down.
They want to use ‘Civil Society’ groups as spies for the Comission “to monitor and report on the rule of law situation”.
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
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They want to use ‘Civil Society’ groups as spies for the Comission “to monitor and report on the rule of law situation”.
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
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The report also shows how many MEPs prefer mud-slinging to serious debate. The text asserts that Hungary “has turned into a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”.
It is interesting how the famous democratic deficit of the EU suddenly disappears!
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multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/p_I23…
It is interesting how the famous democratic deficit of the EU suddenly disappears!
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multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/p_I23…
All of us support democracy care about the rule of law. But the EU has turned the issue into a political football – and this is dangerous for us all.
Check out our event on this very subject where we challenged mainstream EU political thinking.
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Check out our event on this very subject where we challenged mainstream EU political thinking.
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