1、LIBERTIESRULE OF LAW REPORT2025#rolreport2025LIBERTIES RULE OF LAW REPORT 20252LIBERTIES RULE OF LAW REPORT 20253FOREWORD The Liberties Rule of Law Report 2025 is the sixth annual report on the state of rule of law in the European Union(EU)published by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe(Liberties)
2、.Liberties is a non-governmental organisation(NGO)promoting the civil liberties of everyone in the EU,and it is built on a network of national civil liberties NGOs from across the EU.Currently,we have member organisations in Belgium,Bulgaria,the Czech Republic,Croatia,Estonia,France,Germany,Hun-gary
3、,Ireland,Italy,Latvia,Lithuania,Malta,the Netherlands,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia,Spain and Sweden,as well as a contributing partner organisation in Greece.Liberties,together with its members and partner organisations,carries out advocacy,campaigning and public education activities to explain w
4、hat the rule of law is,what the EU and national govern-ments are doing to protect or harm it,and gathers public support to press leaders at EU and national level to fully respect,promote and protect our basic rights and values.The 2025 report was drafted by Liberties and its member and partner organ
5、isations,and it covers the situation during 2024.It is a shadow report to the European Commissions annual rule of law audit.As such,its purpose is to provide the European Commission with reliable information and analysis from the ground to feed its own rule of law reports,and to provide an independe
6、nt analysis of the state of the rule of law in the EU in its own right.Liberties report represents the most in-depth reporting exercise carried out to date by an NGO network to map developments in a wide range of areas connected to the rule of law in the EU.The 2025 report includes 21 country report