The EU’s Faustian Bargain - The EU Betrays Ukraine and the Rule of Law – and We Will Live to Regret It

Abstract

Twelve years into the EU’s rule of law crisis, this week has demonstrated that EU leaders are still unwilling to confront their own complicity in Orbán’s rise and to do something about it. Is this sad spectacle a price worth paying in exchange for a symbolic gesture of goodwill to Ukraine? That is the wrong question to ask. The right question to ask is this: if the EU continues to treat the rule of law as a bargaining chip and to make promises it won’t keep, for how much longer will our Union remain a club worth joining?

Keywords

• Rule of Law
• Ukraine EU accession
• Viktor Orban