Tuesday, June 25, 2013
C1.23 (Oudemanhuispoort)
The EU is at a decisive moment of its history, and confidence in the integration project seems a necessary condition for it to continue. Unfortunately, compliance problems have in recent years made a ‘qualitative leap’ downwards, as hinted by various indicators. To start with, infringements happen on multiple levels:
- non-compliance with summit decisions
- multiple deviations from agreed rules regarding EMU
- non-compliance with the EU’s basic democratic values
- failures to implement EU secondary law in the member states (i.e. transposition of directives and application of regulations, see Article 288 TFEU)
- non-respect for ECJ judgments and even penalization judgments
Additional indicators of an impending compliance crisis are that non-compliance happens with increasing frequency; with obvious visibility to a broad audience; and in fields of immediate relevance for basically all citizens, including all politicians.