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Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University Stockholm Center on Global Governance ARENA, University of Oslo, ENROL – Enforcing the rule of law: What can the European Union do to prevent rule of law deterioration from within?

Much will depend on how entrenched actors, e.g. captured courts, respond. Tisza’s supermajority allows dismantling of many of these enclaves through legislation, so it would fail the necessity requirement restorative disobedience within the proportionality criterion.

In Poland, dismantling autocratic enclaves may require transgressive acts, even rule-breaking, which we call “restorative disobedience.” But this must meet demanding normative criteria: institutional hand-tying, public justification, & proportionality. How might Hungary differ?

This shifts the normative problem of frontsliding: what should constrain a dominant government in a hollowed system, where checks and balances have been eroded by prior backsliding? Institutional hand-tying may become even more important.

🇭🇺🎉THREAD 1/3 The dismantling of state capture is already beginning today In his victory speech, Péter Magyar called for the resignation of – Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary – the President of the Constitutional Court – the President of Hungary’s Supreme Court (the Curia) – the Prosecutor General

Suspending funds is the EU’s strongest tool to safeguard rule of law. In Hungary, release of frozen EU funds was a key factor in Péter Magyar’s campaign. The Commission wants to enshrine RoL conditionality in the next MFF. In a new paper, I take a closer look: www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? Yesterday's #election in #Hungary forces us to grapple w/ the politics of "𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨." In @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @chrishillion.bsky.social, @ascherz.bsky.social & I have an argument- and warning- from Poland 👇thread

Magyar has called on the national president to resign so that the new parliament can elected a new president. (Orban amended the law on the presidency in December to make it impossible for the parliament to impeach the president.) If Sulyok stays, he can act as roadblock for the new govt.