This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the rule of law conditionality contained in the Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of the Union’s budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States. The proposed Regulation establishes a link between a Member State’s violation of the rule of law and the suspension of EU payments. The text examines the effects of the connection between the rule of law and EU money, both for the erring Member State and for the EU as a whole. The discussion shows that, despite the fact that the EU-level approach to the rule of law has significant benefits, it, at the same time, creates new risks. It may undermine the balance of powers in the EU by expanding the political and economic power of certain Member States over others, the power of EU institutions over Member States, and the power of the European Commission over other EU institutions. It is also questionable whether there is a sufficiently strong causal relation between the rule of law deficiency and threats to the EU’s financial interests. Most importantly, it is uncertain to what extent the rule of law conditionality will lead to the true transformation of negative, anti-rule-of-law trends in some Member States, which raises the question of whether the Rule of Law Proposal is capable of responding to the current challenges. Keywords: rule of law, conditionality, legal basis, sufficiently direct link, Art 7 TEU, Commission, Hungary, Poland. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution − Non-Commercial − No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Suggested citation: I Goldner Lang, ‘The Rule of Law, the Force of Law and the Power of Money in the EU’(2019) 15 CYELP 1.

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欧盟的法治，法治和金钱权力

本文讨论了《关于在成员国普遍存在法治上普遍存在缺陷的情况下保护国际电联预算的法规提案》中所包含的法治附带条件的优缺点。拟议的法规在成员国违反法治与中止欧盟付款之间建立了联系。案文探讨了法治与欧盟资金之间的联系对错误的成员国和整个欧盟的影响。讨论表明，尽管事实证明，欧盟一级的法治方法具有明显的好处，但同时也带来了新的风险。通过扩大某些成员国相对于其他成员国的政治和经济实力，它可能会破坏欧盟的力量平衡，欧盟机构对成员国的权力，以及欧盟委员会对其他欧盟机构的权力。缺乏法治与对欧盟金融利益的威胁之间是否存在足够强的因果关系，这也是令人怀疑的。最重要的是，尚不确定在某些程度上法治附带条件会导致某些成员国的消极，反法治趋势真正转变，这引发了一个问题，即法治提案是否有能力应对当前的挑战。关键词：法治，条件，法律基础，足够直接的联系，第7条标准箱，委员会，匈牙利，波兰。这项工作是根据知识共享署名-非商业性-无任何衍生产品4.0国际许可授权的。建议引用：I Goldner Lang，