The EU is a community of law and values among which the rule of law takes a prominent place. In recent years, though, some Member States systemically breach the rule of law and it is commonly diagnosis that the EU lacks effective legal instruments to stop these violations. Many believe that this may change by imposing EU budgetary sanctions on these Member States, e.g. by suspend EU funds earmarked to them. In response the Commission presented the draft regulation which intends to make conditional transfers of EU funds to Member States upon their respect of the rule of law (known as: the rule of law conditionality). This paper will comment on this draft and focuses on these elements which legality raises most concerns.

Our 2020 Annual Conference was scheduled to be held at the University of Wrocław in Poland on July 9-11, 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICON·S Executive Committee has decided to postpone our 2020 Conference to 2021. Our next Annual Conference will take place from July 8-10, 2021, in Wrocław, Poland.
Procedural details regarding the organization of the 2021 Conference will follow in the months ahead.
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