Poland's fight with Brussels backfires
“I think the commission has realised that Article 7 isn’t very useful as an instrument of pressure, and that the Court of Justice is probably more activist than many of us thought,” says Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, from the Centre for European Reform in Brussels. “But the jury is still out on whether the commission will now be keener to use the ECJ to address democratic backsliding in other member states.”