@verfassungsblog@legal.social Eh... she also skewers Riedl's shoddy critical analysis. "The argument made by Riedl here – without mapping the full scope of a debate well-documented in the literature – reduces a complex and multilayered discussion to an overly schematic account that obscures its inherent tension. The argument that Article 7 TEU intentionally assigns enforcement of EU values exclusively to the European Council is not self-evident from the text of the Treaty and cannot simply be assumed..."