Rule of Law at CEU Democracy Institute

Great news for basic Rule of Law and accountability in 🇪🇺Europe: France opens judicial investigation against the former director of Frontex for crimes against humanity in that capacity.
Well-crafted EU lawlessness law is not as good as its designers hoped. All those who stole billions from the budget to facilitate the killing of dozens of thousands in a Putin-style false-flag operation aimed to snub ECHR law and EU values will face justice sooner or later and the 🇫🇷French action is a great start: EU law cannot continue being used for orchestrating murder.

For a primer on EU lawlessness law see our Sarah Ganty and Dimitry Kochenov Yaroslavsky in Columbia Journal of European Law: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5051949

For a list of possible other suspects, including Tusk, Merkel, von der Leyen and 119 others, see the brilliant project by Omer Shatz: www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu

Front-Lex
https://www.justiceinfo.net/fr/156901-la-france-va-enqueter-sur-lancien-patron-de-frontex-pour-complicite-de-crimes-contre-lhumanite.html

EU Citizenship after Commission v. Malta: ECIT Conference Talk, December 2025 Prof. Kochenov offers bird-eye view analysis of the Commission v. Malta ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union and its implications for the nature…

EU court says Poland broke law by sidelining judges and tainted constitutional court Europe’s top judges said Poland crossed a red line by letting its constitutional court block EU law and operate with improperly appointed judges, in a ruling that revisits a decade-long battle over judicial independence.

🔙👥🧑‍⚖️ At the CEU Democracy Institute's Rule of Law Clinic, Artūrs Kučs, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, analyzed how courts shape the understanding and protection of the rule of law in Europe.

🧑‍💻 Read a summary by Karolina Godal:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4mdxnsfj