{"id":27617,"date":"2017-11-04T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27617"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:43:08","slug":"100-respected-academics-slam-eu-in-letter-to-juncker-citing-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27617","title":{"rendered":"100+ Respected Academics Slam EU in Letter to Juncker Citing “Rule of Law”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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100+ Respected Academics Slam EU in Letter to Juncker Citing “Rule of Law”<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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On Thursday, over 100 well-respected academics slammed the EU in a letter sent a letter to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council president Donald Tusk. The academics cited the rule of law.<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The open letter<\/a> , signed by highly-respected academics and members of the European Parliament, cited Spain’s \u201cundisputable abuse of power\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We are deeply concerned that the EU\u2019s governing bodies are condoning the systematic violation of the Rule of Law in Spain, in particular regarding the Spanish central authorities\u2019 approach to the 1 October referendum on Catalan independence. We do not take political sides on the substance of the dispute on territorial sovereignty and we are cognizant of procedural deficiencies in the organization of the referendum. Our concern is with the Rule of Law as practised by an EU Member State.<\/p>\n

The Spanish government has justified its actions on grounds of upholding or restoring the constitutional order.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Tribunal has violated Constitutional provisions on freedom of peaceful assembly and of speech \u2013 the two principles which are embodied by referendums and parliamentary deliberations irrespective of their subject matter. Without interfering in Spanish constitutional disputes or in Spain\u2019s penal code, we note that it is a travesty of justice to enforce one constitutional provision by violating fundamental rights. Thus, the Tribunal\u2019s judgments and the Spanish government\u2019s actions for which these judgments provided a legal basis violate both the spirit and letter of the Rule of Law.<\/li>\n
  2. In the days preceding the referendum, the Spanish authorities undertook a series of repressive actions against civil servants, MPS, mayors, media, companies and citizens. The shutdown of Internet and other telecom networks during and after the referendum campaign had severe consequences on exercising freedom of expression.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    100+ Respected Academics Slam EU in Letter to Juncker Citing “Rule of Law” On Thursday, over 100 well-respected academics slammed the EU in a letter sent a letter to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council president Donald Tusk. The academics cited the rule of law. The open letter , signed by highly-respected academics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[117,6602,2535,3592,284,968,6601,14648,13390,1589,743],"class_list":["post-27617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-donald-tusk","tag-european-commission","tag-european-council","tag-european-union","tag-independence","tag-jean-claude-juncker","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-rule-of-law","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27618,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions\/27618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}