Category: Democratic Governance and Rule of Law
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Commission Opens Fresh Infringement Cases Over Broken EU Law
Helsinki: The European Commission has opened a new round of legal action against member states…
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Media Freedom Rules Turn One as Enforcement Lags
The European Media Freedom Act reaches a milestone this month, one year after most of…
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Hungary Races an August Deadline to Unlock Its Recovery Funds
Budapest: Hungary confronts an August reckoning over its recovery funds, facing a 31 August 2026…
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Press Freedom Slips as Europe’s New Media Law Lags Far Behind
Sofia: The European Commission delivered its annual verdict on the health of European democracy in…
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Hungary Faces an August Reckoning Over Frozen EU Recovery Funds
Brussels: The European Commission has thrust Hungary’s rule of law record back to the centre…
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Press Freedom Slips as the Annual Rule of Law Check Lands
Ljubljana: Slovenia’s newsrooms, like many across the Union, spent the summer reading a report that…
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Can a New Anti-Corruption Push Give the EPPO Real Teeth?
The European Commission is preparing its most ambitious anti-corruption drive in a decade, and the…
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Seventh Rule of Law Report Finds Slow Progress Across the EU
Brussels: The European Commission published its 2026 rule of law report on 17 July, delivering…
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Hungary Wins Cautious Praise in the 2026 EU Rule of Law Report
Budapest: For years Hungary sat at the sharp end of Europe’s rule-of-law disputes. The 2026…
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Rule of Law Report Shows Uneven Progress Across the EU in 2026
Brussels: The European Commission published its 2026 rule of law report on 17 July, telling…
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Rule of Law Report Flags Backsliding Even as Reforms Advance
Sofia: Europe’s yearly health check on democracy delivered a mixed diagnosis. The European Commission published…
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Media Freedom Safeguards Turn One as Enforcement Still Stumbles
Budapest: A year after Europe’s flagship media freedom law began to bite, its defenders are…
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Rule of Law Report Finds Slow but Steady EU Gains
The Commission’s seventh annual rule of law report, published on 17 July 2026, found a…
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Uneven Progress Marks Europe’s Latest Rule of Law Check
Brussels: The European Commission published its 2026 rule of law report on 17 July 2026,…
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Common Anti-Corruption Rules Now Bind the Whole Union
Valletta: For the first time, all 27 member states share a single anti-corruption rulebook. The…
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Rule-of-Law Report Finds Uneven Progress Across the Union
The annual health check on democracy and the courts across the bloc arrived with a…
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Twenty-Four Capitals Face an Infringement Package on Crisis Rules
The European Commission opened its summer term with a blunt reminder that single-market law is…
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Judges Gain Ground in the EU’s Latest Rule of Law Audit
Warsaw: A city that spent years at the centre of Europe’s judicial disputes now sits…
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Journalists Still Await Real Protection From Abusive Lawsuits
Budapest: In a city that has become shorthand for Europe’s arguments over media independence, the…
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July Infringement Package Puts Fifteen Directives on the Line
The European Commission has reached for its bluntest legal instrument again, opening a fresh round…
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Annual Rule of Law Report Finds Uneven Progress in Europe
Valletta: On an island whose politics were shaken by the murder of a journalist and…
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Media Freedom Slips Further as Brussels Grades Its Own Democracies
Brussels: Media freedom is slipping further in several European Union capitals, the European Commission warned…
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Rule of Law Report Finds Reforms Moving Across Much of Europe
The Hague: The European Commission’s seventh annual rule of law report arrived on 15 July…
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Rule of Law Gains Hold Though Follow-Through Lags
Brussels: The European Commission published its 2026 Rule of Law Report on 17 July, and…