No End in Sight for the EU’s Democracy Crisis

In the eyes of many “Old Europeans” the European Union's democracy and rule of law crisis—that is, the ongoing autocratization in Hungary and Poland and its repercussions—still appears to be just an embarrassing proof of the backwardness of East-Central Europe with limited impact on important European matters. Accordingly, it enjoys limited attention and only limited political resources have been allocated in recent years to repair breaches of fundamental values within the EU.