The Network of Valencian Universities for the promotion of R+D+i (RUVID in Spanish) has included our project “Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union” in its 2022 Yearbook.
The Network of Valencian Universities for the promotion of R+D+i (RUVID) was created in December 2001 through a collaboration agreement between the five Valencian public universities: University of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia, University of Alicante, University Jaume I of Castellón and University Miguel Hernández of Elche. Subsequently, in 2003, it acquired its own legal status as a non-profit association.
Currently, it is composed of the five founding universities, CEU Cardenal Herrera University and the Catholic University of Valencia. In addition, it counts with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Delegation in Comunidad Valenciana) as a strategic partner.
The yearbook presents some of the most relevant research news that took place during the year 2022 and that were already included in some of the monthly editions of its digital newsletter InfoRUVID. Both the newsletter and the yearbook are published by RUVID to make visible and highlight the research work carried out in the universities and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas of Comunidad Valenciana.
This has been the publication made by RUVID:
“Media pluralism, judicial independence, the fight against corruption and social activism and the protection of vulnerable groups”. These are the areas of study to be addressed by the international research project Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union, directed by Susana Sanz, Jean Monnet Professor at CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH).
The team of sixteen researchers from eight European universities will map breaches of the fundamentals of the rule of law in the European Union (EU), with a special focus on six countries: Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Spain and Italy.
The team of sixteen researchers from eight European universities will map breaches of the fundamentals of the rule of law in the European Union (EU), with a special focus on six countries: Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Spain and Italy.
of the fundamentals of the rule of law in the European Union (EU), with special attention to six countries: Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Spain and Italy. The incidence of the pandemic in this process of crisis of democratic values will also be the focus of the research, which is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Generalitat Valenciana.
“THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER CRISES IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, BUT THE CURRENT SITUATION IS UNPRECEDENTED, BECAUSE NOW THE VALIDITY OF THE DEMOCRATIC VALUES ENSHRINED IN ARTICLE 2 OF THE TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION IS BEING CALLED INTO QUESTION, WHICH AFFECTS THE VERY SURVIVAL OF THE EU AS A POLITICAL ENTITY.WHAT IS BEING QUESTIONED IS THE NECESSITY, LEGITIMACY AND RELEVANCE OF A UNITED EUROPE.AT THE ROOT OF THIS IDENTITY CRISIS ARE, AMONG OTHER FACTORS, THE RISE OF POPULIST AND XENOPHOBIC PARTIES AND THE ECONOMIC STAGNATION CAUSED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE MASSIVE ARRIVAL OF MIGRANTS, WHICH IS PERCEIVED BY SOME SECTORS AS A THREAT”
Susana Sanz
For the analysis of this crisis of the foundations of the rule of law in the EU, the research team has selected the countries under study based on different criteria of representativeness: Italy, as one of the founding countries of the Union; Spain, as a country that joined in the 1980s; the two countries in which violations of common values are currently most serious, which are Poland and Hungary; a state that joined at the same time as the previous two, Estonia, as a control case; and the last state to join the EU: Croatia.
“The latest rulings of the Polish Constitutional Court, which question the application of both EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights in that country, are an example of how serious this crisis is becoming,” says Professor Susana Sanz.”
