Noul mecanism de întărire a statului de drept la nivelul Uniunii Europene: în direcţia unui model federal ?
The new mechanism of strenghtening the rule of law at the European Union level: to a federal model ?

Summary/Abstract: During the last years the commitment towards democracy and the rule of law of certain EU Member States as Romania and Hungary was seriously damaged. The EU could not rely until recently on any mechanism to intervene, except Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, meaning the suspension of votes in the European Council, a sanction that has not been applied so far. The President of the European Commission rightly assessed in 2012 that the EU does not have anything between the “soft power” of political persuasion and the “nuclear option” of Article 7. This situation is changed since the European Commission adopted in March 2014 a new framework for strengthening the rule of law in EU Member States. This mechanism is based on the adoption of measures preliminary to the application of Article 7. The article describes this new mechanism and considers that it contributes to the federal model based on more political integration between EU Member States. The relationship of this mechanism with the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism is also analysed.

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