How will the incoming von der Leyen Commission strengthen the rule of law in the EU? Democracy Reporting International and Verfassungsblog explore this challenge in an Online Symposium – a series of linked articles dealing with topics ranging from fundamental questions on values of the EU to the details of specific actions by the Commission.
The symposium, hosted by Verfassungsblog, includes the following contributions:
- The von der Leyen Commission and the Future of the Rule of Law by professor Petra Bárd (Central European University)
- Fundamentals on Defending European Values by professor Armin von Bogdandy (MPIL Heidelberg)
- Old friends, new friends? Prospects for EU’s cooperation with intergovernmental organisations in promotion of the rule of law by Jakub Jaraczewski (DRI)
- The Rule of Law Crisis as the Watershed Moment for the European Constitutionalism by professor Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka (UMK Toruń, re:constitution Fellow 2019-20)
- When Journalists Weaken Democracy or How to Better Communicate the Rule of Law by Michael Meyer-Resende (DRI)
- This is not the End: What lies ahead for the VDL Commission in terms of Brexit by professor Joelle Grogan (Middlesex University).
