The latest edition of the Human Rights Watch World Report outlines some stark differences between emerging Europe’s EU and non-EU members. Emerging Europe’s...
Tag - Rule of Law
Improvement in Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Uzbekistan is offset by stagnation or regression elsewhere. For the fifth year...
Budapest and Warsaw now face the real threat of the EU withholding budget payments should they continue to breach their commitments to the rile of law. European...
Germany has a new government, and its ambitious plans the deeper integration of the European Union are likely to cause sleepless nights for autocrats eroding democracy...
Opinions of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona are not binding, but the Luxembourg-based ECJ usually follows them...
A new ECJ ruling means that Poland is now liable to pay the European Union 1.5 million euros in fines per day. The European Union’s top court has ordered Poland to...
Estonia again leads emerging Europe in adherence to the rule of law, and there is marked improvement in Uzbekistan and Moldova. Uzbekistan in Central Asia and Moldova in...
Post-Soviet countries need to establish elementary rule of law before renewed large-scale privatisation can become meaningful. Thirty years after the collapse of the...
Polish authorities could soon face financial repercussions after concerns about the country’s judiciary were reinstated in the annual European Commission country...
The EU wants to boost cooperation with its eastern partners. But how committed are they to upholding EU values? Belarus last week pulled out of the EU’s Eastern...
Romania moved ever so slightly closer to Schengen membership on June 8 when the European Commission published a broadly positive report looking at the country’s...
Kazakhstan is making a name for itself as a reliable investment destination that upholds the rule of law for both foreign and domestic investors. Furthermore, there is...
