The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... grave it can’t be used. But any treaty change would be severely hijacked; it is, at this point, not an option, either. So 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 and deals with much more than its title suggests. It offers a solution, put forward first by the Princeton historian Jan-Werner Müller: a Copenhagen Committee. A group ...