Increase in judges : Clock ticking

The ministers, meeting at the 23 June General Affairs Council, are set to adopt at last their common position on reform of the EU Court of Justice. The member states worked out a political agreement in Coreper in December 2014 validating a new proposal from the court, namely to increase the number of General Court judges from 28 to 56 in a three-stage process. This doubling entitles each member state to appoint two judges and thus breaks the stalemate in…