The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... we have what we have and this is what we operate with, the Brussels institutions seem to have concluded. The report by Rui Tavares on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary, passed by Parliament two weeks ago, admits to the scope of the issue ... ... the Commission to carry out monitoring duties, and give the Union’s legislative and executive bodies good advice when democracy-related worries arise vis-a-vis a member state. If Draco is hardly visible, and indeed if he has the best credentials,...