This contribution honouring Prof. Martin Krygier scholarship provides a brief critical reading of the European Commission’s July 2019 Communication on the Rule of Law (COM(2019) 343 final). It argues that although the Commission’s effort is welcome, the Communication fails to correctly identify the core problem related to the Rule of Law in the EU, which is the constitutional capture in the illiberal regimes. The failure to identify the core problem with unequivocal precision and spell out its key elements as well as dissect its causes undermines the likely effectiveness of the tools proposed by the Commission to address the unnamed and unanalyzed on-going Rule of Law concerns. Consequently, the Communication is lacking in vital essentials, if not vacant at the core.

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房间里的大象：欧盟委员会2019年法治通讯

这项纪念Martin Krygier教授奖学金的贡献简要回顾了欧盟委员会2019年7月《法治通讯》（COM（2019）343 final）。它辩称，尽管委员会的努力值得欢迎，但来文未能正确确定与欧盟法治有关的核心问题，这是非法政权中的宪法规定。无法准确地确定核心问题并阐明其关键要素以及剖析其原因，这破坏了委员会为解决未提及和未经分析的持续的法治问题而建议的工具的可能效力。因此，即使缺乏核心沟通，沟通也缺乏重要的要素。