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Isabela Mares, Director of the European Union Studies Program; Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science
September 1, 2021
Arnold Wolfers Professor Isabela Mares’ book Conditionality and Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe won the Best Book Award from the European Politics Section...
Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), announcing that Poland will dissolve the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, August 7.
August 17, 2021
In the October 2015 election in Poland, Law and Justice (PiS), the conservative and nationalist party headed by Jarosław Kaczyński, won 38 percent of the vote and a wafer-...
EU Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni presenting the EU’s Summer Economic Forecast, Brussels, July 2021.
August 3, 2021
In its Summer Interim Economic Forecast, issued in early July, the EU Commission estimated the European economy would rebound faster this year than it had anticipated in its...
Lord David Frost presenting the government’s Command Paper on the Northern Ireland Protocol to the House of Lords, July 21.
July 27, 2021
Last Wednesday, the British government issued a Command Paper on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland contained in the 2019 EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement. The paper, 22...
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which last Thursday rejected interim measures ordered by the European Court of Justice to ensure judicial independence.
July 22, 2021
As Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union states, the rule of law is one of the fundamental principles and values upon which the EU was founded. Yesterday, the EU...
EU Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announcing “escape clause” for EU fiscal rules will remain in effect until 2023.
July 13, 2021
Last July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, agreed on a €750 billion recovery plan, proposed at their request by...
European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič announcing EU-UK agreement extending exemption from EU rules for chilled meats entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK, June 30.
July 7, 2021
At the G7 meeting in Cornwall last month, the other leaders sternly advised Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to violate the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland contained in...