Unia Europejska – wspólnota wartości i środków finansowych
EU – community of values and financial resources

Summary/Abstract: Participation in the European Union imposes an absolute obligation on EU Member States to comply with the values set out in Article 2 of the TEU. One of them is the common system of the legal order that builds trust between the Member States and the regional international organization established by them. The EU is a state of law. Respect for EU law is a necessary condition for each Member State to exercise all the rights re- sulting from the application of the EU treaties throughout the period of a given state’s membership of this international organization. The judgments issued by the CJEU in cases C-157/21 initiated by the Republic of Poland and C-157/21 – Hungary made the authorities of these countries aware that the values related to and resulting from the rule of law cannot be respected only in the periods preceding accession to the EU. The procedures set out in Article 7 of the TEU and the provisions of Regulation 2020/2092 guarantee to all interested parties that the expenditure financed from the EU budget is in line with the objectives financed by the EU. The horizontal conditionality mechanism established relatively recently in the aforementioned regulation and presented in the justifications issued in both cases on February 16, 2022, makes it clear not only the authorities of the states acting as parties to these proceedings, but also other EU Member States (with the exception of those that as “court friends” on the defendant’s side of the European Com- mission) that the sound management of EU finances as well as the EU financial interests of some EU Member States may be seriously threatened as a result of a breach of the rules of the rule of law.

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