The impact of COVID-19 on fundamental rights and the rule of law across the EU and the future of democracy (own-initiative opinion – FRRL) - Related links

Council of the European Union

• Council conclusions on a human-rights-based post-COVID-19 recovery, February 2021

European Commission

• 2021 Rule of law report
• Coronavirus response
• Recovery and Resilience Facility
• General regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union's budget

European Parliament

• European Parliament resolution of 13 November 2020 on the impact of COVID-19 measures on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights
• European Parliament resolution of 8 July 2021 on the creation of guidelines for the application of the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget
• European Parliamentary Research Service, States of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis, December 2020

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

• Web portal on the Fundamental rights implications of COVID-19
• Pandemic exacerbates challenges civil society faces, 22 September 2021 (press release and report)
• On the road to a rights-based recovery from COVID-19, 10 June 2021 (press release)
• FRA COVID-19 Bulletins

International Organisations

• Council of Europe web portal on human rights and COVID-19
• Council of Europe, European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Respect for Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law during States of Emergency: Reflections
• Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• OSCE Human Dimension Commitments and State Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), COVID-19 and its human rights dimensions
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), country policy tracker
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Building a resilient recovery

Stakeholders

• Democracy Reporting International, (J. Grogan), Extraordinary or extralegal responses? Covid-19 and the rule of law in the EU, May 2021
• RECONNECT, (J. Grogan and N. Weinberg), Principles to Uphold the Rule of Law and Good Governance in Public Health Emergencies, August 2020
• Verfassungsblog Symposium (J. Grogan) Power, Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Part I and Part II concluding the Power and the COVID-19 Pandemic Verfassungsblog Symposium (2021)
• European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard), Europe's Invisible Divides: How COVID-19 is Polarizing European Politics, September 2021
• European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI), COVID-19 and Human Rights
• Equinet, National Equity Bodies' responses to COVID-19 
• Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN), ressources on COVID-19
• European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) and International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), COVID-19 civic freedom tracker
• European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), COVID-19 and civic freedoms
• Privacy International, Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19
• Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Live updates of Covid-19 impacts of press freedom
• Fair Trials, Covid-19 Justice Project World Map
• International Press Institute, COVID-19 Media Freedom Monitoring
• Civil Liberties Union for Europe, COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the EU
• European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), COVID-19 publications
• Services of General Interest Europe, Services of General Interest facing COVID-19
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Trade unions and coronavirus
• Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), COVID-19 publications