Protecting the Rule of Law in the EU Legal Order: A Constitutional Role for the Court of Justice

Abstract

The rule of law as one of the core constitutional values of the EU legal order-The rule of law in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union-Jurisdiction of the Court on the basis of a combined reading of Articles 2 and 19 TEU-Protecting the rule of law in the Common Foreign and Security Policy-Protecting the rule of law in the member states in order to safeguard the structure and functioning of the EU legal order-Limits to the scope of application of EU law.