The time for Reverse Solange is now !
At the end of end of the Cold War, the EU was successful in fostering the rule of law and democracy in former Warsaw Pact countries, by ordering the compliance with the Copenhagen criteria in order to accede to the European Union. However, once in, there are no strict binding rules to these same criteria. This has enabled the rise of the first illiberal regime in Hungary since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and Poland might follow in its shadow. We need the European Court of Justice to protect EU citizens from their member states.
