The informal meeting of European Affairs ministers in Copenhagen on Tuesday 2 September was also an opportunity to discuss once again the state of the rule of law in the EU.
While the Commission published a new edition of its annual report in July(see EUROPE B13676A27), the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU had also set out some ideas in a concept paper.
In particular, with regard to the conditionality of the European budget, it wanted to know how to link the release of European...