1、#ROLREPORT2024LIBERTIESRULE OF LAW REPORT20242Liberties Rule of Law Report20243Liberties Rule of Law Report2024Table of contentsExecutive summary 4Governments weaken democratic accountability to citizens and oversight by institutions 4Key findings 7Steps forward to improve the Commissions rule of la
2、w monitoring 12About this report 14Rule of law monitoring:why it matters 16A tool to make sure powers and resources are used for the public good 16Compliance with democratic standards should never be taken for granted17Feeding efforts to protect our democracies18Common challenges facing our democrac
3、ies 21Continued demand for a depoliticised,better funded,and fairer justice system 22Lack of genuine progress in the field of anti-corruption 30Efforts to safeguard media freedom and pluralism still inadequate across the EU35Defective system of checks and balances 43Attacks on rights defenders and p
4、rotest bans further restricted civic space last year 50People from marginalised groups continue to suffer human rights violations 56Country reports 60 BELGIUM 61 BULGARIA 84 CROATIA 104 CZECH REPUBLIC 163 ESTONIA 194 FRANCE 214 GERMANY 243 GREECE 270 HUNGARY 316 IRELAND 351 ITALY 381 LATVIA 414 LITH
5、UANIA 428 NETHERLANDS 450 POLAND 486 ROMANIA 505 SLOVAKIA 521 SLOVENIA 553 SWEDEN 588Contact6214Liberties Rule of Law Report2024Executive summaryThe Liberties Rule of Law Report 2024 is the fifth annual report on the state of the rule of law in the European Union(EU)published by the Civil Liberties
6、Union for Europe(Liberties)the most in-depth reporting exer-cise to date on the rule of law in the EU by a civil society network.The report,jointly drafted by Liberties and its national member and partner organisations,is a shadow report to the European Commissions annual audit of the rule of law,ai