Mueller publishes Book on How the EU should protect Democracy in its Member States
Jan-Werner Mueller has published a short book on the controversial question whether the European Union is legitimated to intervene in its own Member States to protect liberal democracy (see http://www.suhrkamp.de/edition-suhrkamp-digital/wo-europa-endet_1002.html).
Mueller’s volume offers a case-study of Hungary, where a right-wing populist government has been undermining the rule of law since 2010, before advancing a range of arguments drawn from democratic theory as to why Brussels can legitimately act as a guardian of liberal democracy. Some of the core claims of the books are also contained in Mueller’s recent paper for the Transatlantic Academy, ‘Safeguarding Democracy inside the EU: Brussels and the Future of Liberal Order’, available here: