[JMCE at Keio/Japan] Special Lecture #13 (19052018) > Special Lectures

Title

Andrej Babis's Concept of Democracy: Is Czech Democracy on the Brink of Illiberal Turn?

Speaker

Mizuho Nakada-Amiya, Faculty of International Studies, Meijigakuin University

Dates

19 May 2018

Venue

4F Conference room, South bldg., Mita Campus, Keio University

Number of

Direct Participants

(researchers and students from your institution)

11

Number of

Indirect Participants

(other audiences like media or residents in your region)

3

Outlines

(up to 5 points)

-Now it is not democracy but rule of law that is in crisis in Europe.

-The EU Commission decided that Polish judicial reform could be a

systematic threat to “rule of law” and proposed a sanction against

Poland.

-The possibility of the sanction was very low, because of the

unanimity procedure in the European Council, where Poland and

Hungary help each other.

-In this case it is apparent that it is quite difficult to sanction

violations of fundamental values of the EU.

-Hungary or Poland do not want to get out of the EU, because of

their dependence on it from an economic point of views, but the EU should consider some other measure to sanction their fundamental

values violations such as to decrease the amounts of subsidies, etc.

Photographs

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