Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday we welcomed the announcement by the European Court of Justice that it had dismissed the appeal by the Hungarian and Polish Governments in respect of the European Commission's new-found ability to withhold funding from those countries due to flagrant breaches of the rule of law. Will the Government now urge European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to use that new law to make it clear that European citizens can continue to live in free democracies where the rule of law comes foremost rather than being subject to thuggish regimes that suspend the rights of the judiciary, minorities and many others?

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