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The formula originally proposed by @europarl.europa.eu was much more effective, ao as the reporting panel would have been independent. But of course the EU Commission refuses that, as it is kept on a leash by the government leaders

Indeed and this was one of the key suggestions we made in the 2019 study previously mentioned.

See also this expert study from 2019 advising against reinventing the rule of law wheel and getting distracted from using existing *enforcement* tools by wasting time setting up a new, shinny and bound to become toothless monitoring tool

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Thank you Nik.

Thank you Iana. As I have often said in the past, those actively undermining the rule of law would not be as successful if it wasn’t for the many enablers and opportunists they find along the way.