EU Rule of Law Procedures at the Test Bench

Cristina Fasone is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at Luiss University, Rome, Italy.Adriano Dirri is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Comparative Public Law at Luiss University, Rome, Italy.Ylenia Guerra is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Constitutional Law at Luiss University, Rome, Italy.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Dissensus as a Trigger and as a Consequence of the Rule of Law Crisis in the EU Adriano.- Part I :The Instruments Provided by EU Primary Law.- Chapter 2.Key political an d legal debates on Article 7 TEU in times of dissensus over the rule of law.- Chapter 3. Ordinary weapons for exceptional threats? The infringement procedure and the rule of law crisis.- Chapter 4. The Rising Value of the Preliminary Reference Procedure in the Rule of Law Protection.- Chapter 5. Granting Rights, preserving the Rule of Law? The Effectiveness of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.- Chapter 6: The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism: The end of the Exceptionalism?.-Part II-. The Tools Offered by EU Legislation.- Chapter 7: Strengthening the Rule of Law Through Macroeconomic Support: The Technical Support Instrument and Its Precedents.- Chapter 8: The Role of OLAF and EPPO in the Protection of the Rule of Law.- Part III -. The Effectiveness of Soft Law Tools.- Chapter 9. The Shortcomings ofthe Rule of Law Framework and Dialogue.- Chapter 10. Measuring Justice? The EU Justice Scoreboard in the Light of the performance-based approach.- Chapter 11. The Prospective Impact of the Rule of Law Reports: A tool to be fine-tuned.- Part IV - The Economic and Fiscal Leverage.- Chapter 12. Enforcing the European Union’s Rule of Law through Economic Governance Mechanisms: The Role of the European Semester.- Chapter 13. Recent trends and ambiguities of conditionality as an instrument of EU internal governance.- Chapter 14. Contesting the Rule of Law in the European Union: The Creation and Implementation of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation.- Chapter 15. The Recovery and Resilience Facility and its effects on the Rule of Law Conditionality: A (potentially) well-functioning connection.-Chapter 16. The role of competition law in defending rule of law values in the EU.