Judy Asks: Should the EU Sanction Its Members?

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey each week on a European topic in the news.

In this feature the question was: Should the EU Sanction Its Members?

The experts were:
+ Federiga Bindi - Senior fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, director of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and D. German distinguished visiting chair at Appalachian State University
+ Nicolas Bouchet - Nonresident fellow in the Europe Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
+ Saskia Brechenmacher - Associate fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program
+ Andrew Byrne - Financial Times correspondent for Hungary, Romania, and the Western Balkans
+ Carl Dolan - Director of Transparency International EU
+ Sophie Gaston - Head of international projects and external affairs and editor of Demos Quarterly at Demos
+ István Hegedűs - Chairman of the Hungarian Europe Society
+ Grzegorz Makowski - Head of the Public Integrity Program at the Stefan Batory Foundation
+ Michael Meyer-Resende - Executive director of Democracy Reporting International
+ Alina Mungiu-Pippidi - Professor of policy analysis and democracy at Hertie School of Governance
+ Daniel Smilov - Program director at the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia
+ Stephen Szabo - Executive director of the Transatlantic Academy
+ Pierre Vimont - Senior fellow at Carnegie Europe

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Is Poland’s constitutional tribunal crisis over? http://www.europeansources.info/record/is-polands-constitutional-tribunal-crisis-over/

ESO: Background information: Understanding the EU Rule of Law mechanisms http://www.europeansources.info/record/understanding-the-eu-rule-of-law-mechanisms/

European Commission: Justice: Effective justice: Rule of law http://ec.europa.eu/justice/effective-justice/rule-of-law/index_en.htm

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