Ever since its establishment, the European Union has consistently advocated its values of democracy and freedom. Over the course of the last ten years, however, these values have come to be challenged by democratic backsliding, which constitutes a new phenomenon within the Union. One of the countries that has been subject to the most severe democratic decline is Poland, which today no longer classifies as a consolidated democracy. Despite Poland´s repeated neglect of the EU values, the fulfillment of which is required to join, Poland is still a full-fledged member of the EU. The aim of this paper is to examine in what ways the EU has exercised its normative power in order to prevent Poland´s continuous democratic backsliding and determine the reasons for its failure. Results find that the EU has taken multiple actions against Poland, however with a less successful outcome. The reasons for the EUs unsuccess consist of internal divisions between member states and its legal procedures often being protracted and too complicated. Although the EU has yet to fulfill its legal actions against Poland there are signs indicating a slight change providing hope for the future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-121056 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Johansson, Sophia |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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