The greatest threat for any union comes from within. Closed ranks may easily be achieved against external threats or aggressors. But nothing is more perilous than a growing dissolution at the core of the community, writes Dirk Wedel, member of the Renew Europe Group in the European Committee of the Regions (Renew Europe CoR) and a former German judge and state secretary in the Ministry of Justice for North Rhine-Westphalia, in an op-ed on the state of the rule of law in Europe.

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🗣"A strong democracy & #RuleOfLaw is the cornerstone for an open European society & for the future of the EU, its member states & regions"

➡Read Dirk Wedel's (@fdp_nrw @FDPFraktionNRW) op-ed in @euobs about undermining of rule of law from within: https://t.co/0RpvEXaV8f

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