The European Commission has unveiled two new tools to frustrate aspiring authoritarians in the EU.
The first would allow the commission to block EU funds to governments that bring independent courts under political control.
The commission has packaged this proposal as a technical precaution, as previously suggested by the NGO, Civil Liberties Union for Europe.
According to this appro...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.