by European Civic Forum | 11 July 2023 | Rule of Law
(Please click here to read a French translation) On 5 July 2023, the European Commission published its fourth annual report reviewing the Rule of Law infrastructure and developments in 27 Member States in 2022. It assessed how recommendations from last year’s report...
by Vladimir SESTOVIC | 16 February 2022 | Civic Space, Statement
As the EU Council prepares to discuss the rule of law situation in Poland at its upcoming meeting on 22 February 2022, FIDH and other civil society organisations from Poland and across the EU draw EU ministers’ attention to recent, alarming developments, pointing to a...
by Vladimir SESTOVIC | 07 February 2022 | Advocacy
The European Civic Forum took part in the 2022 European Commission consultation on the state of rule of law in the European Union. Democracy, fundamental rights, and the rule of law are interlinked The proper functioning of the rule of law cannot rely only on state...
by Benjamin Goodwin | 23 July 2021 | Civic Space, Statement
On 20 July 2021, the European Commission published the second rule of law report covering events taking place in 2020 and early 2021. The report maintains the same methodology adopted in the previous one, looking narrowly at only four elements: the justice system, the...
by Benjamin Goodwin | 11 March 2021 | Civic Space, Public Consultation
Deterioration of the rule of law, democracy and civic space: there is a need for a comprehensive approach The deterioration of the rule of law develops in parallel with growing social disparities In the European Union, the rule of law (Etat de Droit, Rechtsstaat)...