The Risks to Judicial Independence in Latvia: A View Eighteen Years Since EU Accession

Beatrice Monciunskaite
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: The European Union (EU) is in the midst of what could be deemed the biggest threat to its current order since its inception: Member States backsliding on EU founding values. Indeed, the EU is showing no sign of having the rule of law backsliding crisis under control in states such as Hungary and Poland, a decade since the first signs of populist takeovers emerged. Since the foundational values of liberal constitutional democracy were first challenged in these two Central Eastern European (CEE) countries, similar issues in other Member States have also come to light, such as in the Czech Republic and Malta, amongst others. However, little information is available about the democratic stability of other States that also acceded to the EU in 2004. This paper is a stocktaking exercise which aims to address this gap in relation to the fidelity of Latvia to the founding EU value of the rule of law 18 years since it became an EU member. It will examine the state of judicial independence in Latvia during the past few years. Attacks on judicial independence are the main battleground on which the EU is fighting Hungary and Poland, and a value that is considered central to the EU’s understanding of the rule of law. It is important to understand Latvia’s current state of judicial independence in order to build a broader picture of the status of the rule of law in all Member States. This knowledge will help to fight the EU’s rule of law crisis and the rise of populism. This is something that needs to be achieved sooner rather than later so that the EU can stand united against an ever more aggressive Russia to the East.
拉脱维亚司法独立面临的风险:加入欧盟18年来的观察
当前位置欧盟(EU)正处于自其成立以来对其现有秩序的最大威胁之中:成员国背弃了欧盟的创始价值观。事实上,自民粹主义收购的最初迹象出现10年以来,欧盟没有任何迹象表明,匈牙利和波兰等国的法治倒退危机得到了控制。自从自由宪政民主的基本价值首先在这两个中东欧国家受到挑战以来,其他会员国也出现了类似的问题,例如捷克共和国和马耳他等国。然而,关于2004年加入欧盟的其他国家的民主稳定性的信息很少。本文是一项盘点练习,旨在解决拉脱维亚在成为欧盟成员国18年来对欧盟法治创始价值的忠诚方面的差距。它将审查拉脱维亚在过去几年中司法独立的状况。对司法独立的攻击是欧盟对抗匈牙利和波兰的主战场,也是欧盟对法治理解的核心价值。重要的是要了解拉脱维亚目前的司法独立状况,以便更广泛地了解法治在所有会员国中的地位。这种认识将有助于对抗欧盟的法治危机和民粹主义的崛起。这是一件需要尽快实现的事情,这样欧盟才能团结起来,对抗东边越来越咄咄逼人的俄罗斯。
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