Maintaining the Court of Justice of the European Union's Legitimacy and Upholding the Rule of Law – an Uneven Equation?
The dismantling of the rule of law in a number of Member States of the EU continues. Recently, the Court of Justice has become the centre of attention of the rule of law crisis, due to the pending case C-619/18 Commission v Poland, concerning the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The Advocate General found in his Opinion to the case that the Polish law that lowered the retirement age of the