TY - JOUR A1 - Bogdandy, Armin von T1 - How to protect European values in the Polish constitutional crisis T2 - Verfassungsblog N2 - Does the Polish development concern us — the European citizens and the European institutions we have set up? There is a functional and a normative argument to state that it does. The normative argument is that the European Union organizes a community of states that profess allegiance to a set of fundamental values—among others, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights. The functional reason is that the European legal space presupposes mutual trust. European law operates on the presumption that all institutions are law-abiding. Otherwise, the legal edifice crumbles. KW - Art. 7 EU KW - EU rule of law framework KW - European Legal Space KW - European Values KW - Rule of Law Y1 - 2016 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54243 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-542434 N1 - LICENSED UNDER CC BY NC ND IS - 2016/3/31 SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - Verfassungsblog.de CY - Berlin ER -