Konrad Lachmayer wrote an article about ” Questioning the Basic Values – Austria and Jörg Haider”. It was published in Jakab/Kochenov (eds), The Enforcement of EU Law and Values at the Oxford University Press.
The EU 14’s measures against Austria in 2000 are an interesting episode in the history of European integration. From today’s perspective we get the impression that the whole response from the EU Member States to the Austrian situation was a failure and history today shows that Jörg Haider never threatened democracy and the Rule of Law in Austria. This chapter argues against this understanding by not only retracing the core part of the story but also extending the perspectives on the year 2000 to the past and the future. …
It is clear that the current crisis of the EU is not confined to the Eurozone and the EMU, evidenced in its inability to ensure the compliance of Member States to follow the principles and values underlying the integration project in Europe (including the protection of democracy, the Rule of Law, and human rights). This defiance has affected the Union profoundly, and in a multi-faceted assessment of this phenomenon, The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States’ Compliance, dissects the essence of this crisis, examining its history and offering coping methods for the years to come. …
Jakab/Kochenov (eds), The Enforcement of EU Law and Values
Oxford University Press 2017
ISBN: 9780198746560