Liberties - Report - "EU 2020: Demanding on democracy"

The report, published in March 2021, offers a comprehensive overview of the main challenges affecting the rule of law across the EU as viewed by civil liberties organisations. It covers the most striking developments of 2020 related to the rule of law in 14 EU countries, as reported by Liberties’ member and partner organisations, and namely:

• Bulgarian Helsinki Committee – Bulgaria
• Centre for Peace Studies – Croatia
• League of Human Rights – Czech Republic
• Vox Public – France
• Society for Civil Rights – Germany
• Hungarian Civil Liberties Union – Hungary
• Irish Council for Civil Liberties – Ireland
• Associazione Antigone jointly with the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights – Italy
• Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights – Poland
• Apador-CH – Romania
• Via Iuris – Slovakia
• Peace Institute – Slovenia
• Rights International Spain – Spain
• Civil Rights Defenders – Sweden

The report brings together all the country rule of law reports as developed by Liberties' contributing member and partner organisations. It also offers an overview of trends compiled by Liberties based on the country submissions received and includes a series of recommendations addressed to EU institutions on how to better address the issues identified.

The country reports were compiled by national member and partner organisations on the basis of a common structure developed by Liberties.

Insofar as the report was also meant as a contribution to the European Commission’s public consultation to feed its 2021 Annual Rule of Law Report, the common structure was developed by taking account of the priority areas and indicators identified by the European Commission for the purpose of its annual rule of law monitoring cycle.