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Brexit was a distraction. Now Europe is facing a hellish 2020
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, explains that the "backtracking on the rule of law in any member-states" creates "a challenge to the whole mutual trust. That is a founding principle for crucial projects such as the single market or justice."