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EU’s top court is the hard-right’s next target – and MEP Weimers’ report just pulled the trigger
<div><img width="600" height="400" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2021/10/b223b0e0cf8a1540f88fb4cb80246d4d-600x400.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2021/10/b223b0e0cf8a1540f88fb4cb80246d4d-600x400.jpg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2021/10/b223b0e0cf8a1540f88fb4cb80246d4d-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://static.euobserver.com/2021/10/b223b0e0cf8a1540f88fb4cb80246d4d-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://static.euobserver.com/2021/10/b223b0e0cf8a1540f88fb4cb80246d4d-2048x1364.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>Presented as a transparency exercise, a draft European Parliament report would curb the Court of Justice’s power to defend judicial independence across the Union and with it the legal infrastructure on which the EU’s citizens, companies and rights depend, warns Alberto Alemanno.