On 18 May 2021, the CJEU issued a judgment on several requests for preliminary rulings by Romanian national courts, regarding the impact of EU law on Romanian laws on the judiciary and the value of the Decision 2006/928 of the European Commission by reference to national law. In a previous post, we discussed the findings of the Luxembourg Court and the possible impact of the judgment on national courts and the respect of rule of law in Romania. In a hopeful tone, we were saying that this

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... t could be a guide for national courts for applying the primacy of the EU law. These hopes, as feeble as they were, were shattered on 8 June 2021 with a decision by the Romanian Constitutional Court