The New EU Conditionality Mechanism – The long-awaited solution to rule of law breaches in Europe?
Human Rights in Europe
Amnesty International EAAC
5.0 • 2 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Together with Member of the European Parliament Niklas Nienaß we are exploring the European Union’s recently adopted and by the European Court of Justice newly validated conditionality mechanism on the rule of law. How does it work? What are the underlining power plays between European Institutions from the mechanism‘s initial proposal, over adoption and validation to implementation? How effective will it be? Ultimately, what we all want to know: Does it represent a solution to all current and future rule of law breaches in the EU, such as currently in Hungary and Poland?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everyone to our podcast on human rights in Europe. |
| 0:11.1 | For those that are regular listeners, thank you for joining us again today. |
| 0:15.8 | And for those that are new, I can promise some interesting insights on the human rights landscape |
| 0:20.4 | in the European Union is |
| 0:21.5 | rating you from now on. |
| 0:23.6 | Today I, Mira, member of the EU Action Coordination Group and moderator of this podcast, |
| 0:29.6 | I'm welcoming you to the first episode of a three episodes series on the latest rule of law mechanism of the European Union. |
| 0:38.3 | More specifically, we are conducting this interview series in light of the recent ECJ, |
| 0:43.3 | the European Court of Justice, decision on the so-called regulation on a general regime of |
| 0:49.3 | conditionality for the protection of the union budget, short conditionality regulation. |
| 0:55.0 | The ECJ in February 22, so not too long ago actually, confirmed the validity of the regulation |
| 1:02.0 | after Poland and Hungary had filed a case against it at the court governing EU law. |
| 1:09.0 | We want to understand today what this new European conditionality regulation is |
| 1:15.1 | about, what it entails, and how effective it really is compared to its predecessors, because |
| 1:21.0 | there are quite a few, as we will hear in the course of the interview. Is this really the long-awaited |
| 1:25.6 | solution to human rights and the rule of law breaches |
| 1:28.3 | currently taking place in Europe? For our first episode, I'm pleased to welcome Niklas Ninas to our |
| 1:35.0 | podcast today. Mr. Nines is member of the European Parliament or short MEPs since 2019 in Brussels |
| 1:43.0 | and affiliates to the Green Party. |
| 1:45.9 | Mr. Nines originally comes from Germany. |
| 1:48.7 | It's further also importantly substitute of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, |
| 1:54.7 | short AFCO, and therefore particularly active and interested in rule of law. |
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