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As a law-based community, the European Union depends on the rule of law, the separation of powers and an independent judiciary guaranteed and functioning within Member States.
According to Frank Furedi, the British sociologist born in Budapest, what we are currently witnessing in the EU should apparently be described in terms of a “European culture war”.
European values have become one of the hottest issues discussed currently in the EU. They may be defined from various angles: political (liberal democracy and human rights), legal
There is a growing worry about the state of democracy in the European Union Member States. Particularly the developments in Hungary and in Poland have raised concerns and sparked intensive debates about illiberal backsliding and de-democratization.
The year 2016 changed everything. A set of coordinated actions by the ruling parliamentary majority, the government, and the President paved the way to the destruction of the independence of the Polish Constitutional Court.
Poland has never had worse relations with the European Commission, the European Parliament and Germany since its accession to the EU. The key problem is the undermining of the rule of law by the Polish government.
After Brexit, Germany and Poland will remain the only proponents of the liberal approach to the Single Market among the largest EU economies.
It seems that the only way to save the principle of cohesion and take full advantage of the single market is to encourage all the Member States to join the core in deepening European integration.
Outside the eurozone we will see a more and more fragmented Single Market, shaped according to the needs and wishes of the eurozone members, who, thanks to their dominance in the EU institutions, will be free to pass any legislation they wish to.
