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Operationalising Fundamentals: Rule of Law Conditionality in the EU Growth Plan

The EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans was introduced in 2023 as a complementary enlargement instrument designed to foster economic convergence and social development alongside the broader Europeanisation process. What distinguishes this instrument, however, is not merely its economic ambition but its method – modelled on the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Growth Plan …

The Judge is Their Own Executioner: How Constitutional Judges’ Self-Decisions on Their Own Terms of Office Endanger the Montenegrin Rule of Law

This translation is a redesigned reproduction of the original article that was published on Verfassungsblog on the 15th of January 2026. The original article can be found at the following link Introduction The election of a new judge to the Montenegrin Constitutional Court on November 25, 2025, has once again revealed a structural problem: the judges …

Bosnia’s Dodik Case: A “Victory” for the Rule of Law

The conviction of Milorad Dodik, the then president of Republika Srpska (RS), by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on February 26th , 2025, which was upheld in totality by the appellate chamber of the same court on June 12th, 2025, represents both a watershed moment and a cautionary tale for the rule of law …