Christophe Hillion retweeted
This is hardly the moment to announce new projects with the Georgian 🇬🇪 government. Strategic communication is everything now. The EU should halt 🇪🇺 funds for the executive, channel support to CSOs which are at risk of being silenced & threaten sanctions against autocratic forces
📢 On 1-2 May, @GertJanEU, Director General of @eu_near, will visit Georgia🇬🇪 to discuss cooperation & 9 steps linked to 🇬🇪’s EU🇪🇺 Candidate Status with officials, civil society & other partners. He will also launch several EU-funded projects.
Read more➡️europa.eu/!nKWhjW
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LIVE NOW: 'How #Hungary’s Democratic Decline Challenges #Europe: A Civil Society Perspective' w/@martapardavi & @ChHillion: youtube.com/watch?v=7DZTVUBv…
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If EU had learned anything from attacks on judiciary in Poland and Hungary, they would react quickly and decisively to these developments in Slovakia…
Alas, I fear they have learned nothing.
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📣Are you an early-career scholar or practitioner passionate about #Democracy and the #RuleofLaw? Apply now for the re:constitution Fellowship 2024/2025!🙌🏽
💻Deadline: 3 April at 12 noon CEST
Christophe Hillion retweeted
In #Hungary, #Fidesz frames international grants to independent #NGOs as massive threat to sovereignty.
Abroad, it organizes mass protests & road blockades, and of course meddles into elections. I wonder when will partners see that Fidesz is a threat to other's #sovereignty.
‼️If you thought that PM Orbán's taxpayer-funded think-tank, @MCC_Brussels is here to hold conferences, you'd be wrong. According to @FT they organised Wednesday's #FarmersProtest outside @EUParl_EN (which was somehow left out of Fidesz MEP Hidvéghi's colourful post) 2/1
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‼️ My speech in Plenary today:
Article 7(2) was not put in the Treaty for nothing. It’s there for a reason. So, please Member States, roll up your sleeves and start the work to save this Union.
The EU decision-making cannot be paralyzed by one government.
« Pour les Européens, on négocie parce que l’on veut la paix. Mais la guerre hybride ne connaît pas la paix, pas plus que Poutine ne connaît la bonne foi » – via @lemondefr lemonde.fr/idees/article/202…
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'Caught between Trump and Putin, Europe is heading for disaster, like the sleepwalkers of 1914'. My column in @LeMonde_EN lemonde.fr/en/opinion/articl…
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He’s right. The commission confused a law with reality. The Hungarian judicial
reform changed nothing substantial on the ground. And the commission fell for it.
Catastrophic decision! The Commission has just decided to let Hungary start claiming up to 10,2 billion euros of EU funds.
The timing could not have been worse - now it looks like Orban has successfully blackmailed the rest of the union. 1/6
@EPPGroup
Christophe Hillion retweeted
Today the EU Commission killed its most powerful tool for defending rule of law: budget conditionality. Just as its suspension of funds was starting to impose pain on Orban, @vonderleyen caves in to his extortion over Ukraine & releases the money. Shame! politico.eu/article/commissi…
« En Ukraine, l’Europe vit son “moment Démosthène” » – via @lemondefr lemonde.fr/idees/article/202…
« Prise en étau entre Trump et Poutine, l’Europe court à la catastrophe, comme les somnambules de 1914 » lemonde.fr/idees/article/202… via @lemondefr
Christophe Hillion retweeted
A successful & democratic #Ukraine is an existential threat to the autocratic regime of Viktor #Orbán, hence his strategic interest is 🇺🇦's defeat.
My piece for @VisegradInsight before this week's crucial #EUCO.
visegradinsight.eu/the-eu-ne…
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We need to rebuild something that has been ruined, the rule of law with all its institutional aspects. We have spent many hours discussing how to quickly and unconditionally restore the rule of law in Poland - Tusk after introducing new MoJ @Adbodnar
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EU explores emergency Ukraine funding outside bloc’s shared budget via @FT
on.ft.com/47Q77Sh
Viktor Orbán has undermined Europe for long enough. It’s time to call his bluff | Alexander Hurst theguardian.com/commentisfre…
On June 4th, Poland is Marching for Democracy! [EDITORIAL] wyborcza.pl/7,173236,2983024…
Christophe Hillion retweeted
On the occasion of the conference we have published an anthology with essays by many of the speakers, including @KimLaneLaw @JMorijn @rdanielkelemen @annawojcik @ProfKochenov and @ld_spieker.
It’s a pleasure to welcome them and many other scholars and practitioners to Stockholm.
