Review of European Administrative Law (REALaw)

2025 / 1 (april) 1

Jane Reichel
Editorial online pdf

Articles

Franco Peirone - Assistant Professor of European Public Law, Department of Public Law, Maastricht University
The Commission’s Annual Rule of Law Report: Three Transformative Shifts in the Oversight of EU Member States online pdf
Jan Malíř - Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Law, Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences, Magdaléna Svobodová - Associate Professor, Department of European Law, Charles University School of Law
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Coordinating National Responses to Serious Cross-Border Threats to Health in the European Union: European Health Union and beyond online pdf
Cecilie Fanøe Petersen - External Lecturer, Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School
Combatting Misuse of Public Funding During COVID-19: Evaluating the European Commission’s attempt on making State financial support to undertakings in the Union conditional on the absence of links to non-cooperative jurisdictions online pdf

Case Law Analysis

Barbora Budinská - Assistant Professor, Europa Institute, Leiden University
The General Court gives with one hand and takes away with the other: Reflections on the judgment in BAWAG PSK Bank v ECB (T-667/21) concerning the ECB’s mandate to apply national law online pdf

Book Reviews

O.A. (Ola) Al Khatib - PhD Candidate, Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, Utrecht University
Algorithmic Rule By Law: How Algorithmic Regulation in the Public Sector Erodes the Rule of Law, N.A. Smuha, Cambridge University Press, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-009-42746-3 online pdf
Guido Bellenghi - PhD researcher, Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL), Maastricht University
Law and Practices of Delegated Rulemaking by the European Commission, Z. Xhaferri, Brill | Nijhoff 2023, ISBN: 978-90-04-50987-0 online pdf
Maarten Bouwmeester - PhD candidate, Department of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Public Administration, University of Groningen, Lucas Michael Haitsma - PhD candidate, Department of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Public Administration, University of Groningen
The Rule of Law and Automated Decision-Making: Exploring Fundamentals of Algorithmic Governance, M. Suksi (ed.), Springer Nature 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-30141-4 online pdf
Alessandro Cuomo - PhD Candidate, European Law Department, Maastricht University
The Individual in the Economic and Monetary Union: a Study of Legal Accountability, A. Bobić, Cambridge University Press 2024, ISBN: 9781009207942 online pdf
Pavlina Hubkova - Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Public Law, Maastricht University
Governance of Automated Decision-Making and EU Law, H. Hofmann, F. Pflücke (eds.), Oxford University Press 2024, ISBN: 9780198919544 online pdf
Luca Knuth - PhD Candidate at Maastricht University and Kiel University, Maastricht Centre for European Law and Hermann Kantorowicz Institute.
Maarten Hillebrandt, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, and Ida Koivisto (Eds.), (In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice. Routledge 2024. ISBN: 9781032191508 online pdf
Teresa Pareja Sánchez - PhD Candidate, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Exchange of information in the EU. Taxpayer’s rights, transparency and effectiveness, M. Serrat Romani, J. Korving, M. Eliantonio (eds.), 2024, ISBN: 9781035314553. online pdf
Loth Van der Auwermeulen - Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Government and Law (CORe), Hasselt University
Handbook on European Union Public Administration, Gijs Jan Brandsma (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, ISBN 978 1 80220 900 6 online pdf
Tim Gutmann - Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Augsburg
Data at the Boundaries of European Law, D. Curtin and M. Catanzariti (eds.), Oxford University Press 2023, ISBN: 9780198874195 online pdf

The Commission’s Annual Rule of Law Report: Three Transformative Shifts in the Oversight of EU Member States

Franco Peirone - Assistant Professor of European Public Law, Department of Public Law, Maastricht University^*

Abstract

The Annual Rule of Law Report currently serves as the Commission’s evaluation of the state of the rule of law in Member States. Initially, the report was conceived as a soft-law tool to examine measures aimed at combating corruption within Member States, based on the premise that a key element of the rule of law is the impartial application and effective enforcement of laws, ensured by a robust anti-corruption framework. Over time, both the scope and the bindingness of the Commission’s analysis have expanded. Today, the Rule of Law Report assesses a Member State’s justice system, anti-corruption framework, media pluralism and freedom, institutional checks and balances to evaluate compliance with the rule of law at the national level. In conjunction with the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Budget Conditionality Regulations, the Report has acquired a conditional effect, serving as a basis for disbursing or withholding EU funds. Recent developments have further demonstrated its utility in shaping EU democracies. Its monitoring now extends to domestic political affairs, enabling the Commission to intervene when democratic deadlocks threaten the rule of law. Now in its fifth edition, the Rule of Law Report has significantly evolved in both nature and function. It plays a central role in the EU’s anti-corruption efforts, which have reached an unprecedent level of detail, and is actively shaping the definition and the implementation of rule of law within the EU.

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