27 February 2024, Brussels The EU Parliament has today taken the EU one step closer to safeguarding journalists and media freedom in voting to support the EU Anti-SLAPPs Directive. SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation) are...
The past decade has seen sustained attacks on the EU’s fundamental values by one of its own member states. For the past 13 years, Hungary’s government has launched a barrage of laws aimed to erode its democracy, all while continuing to benefit...
Brussels, 13 December 2023 Transparency International EU (TI EU) staunchly opposes the release of some 10 billion euros in EU funds to a government that has comprehensively failed to demonstrate it takes meaningful reform to its democratic...
5 December 2022 Dear Ministers of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, We, undersigned organisations defending human rights, ask you to protect the rule of law in Europe and support the proposal to suspend EU funds to Hungary under the...
The following joint letter was sent by 17 civil society organisations to the EU General Affairs Council on 9 December 2021, ahead of the Council’s meeting on 14 December.
This letter was sent to the European Commission on 29 September 2021 Dear Vice-President Dombrovskis, Commissioner Gentiloni, Commissioner Hahn, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to express our shared concerns regarding Hungary’s...
The following letter was sent to Chancellor Angela Merkel on 3 December 2020: RE: Rule of law and the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget Dear Chancellor Merkel, On November 16, two EU member states blocked the...
The problem: gag lawsuits against public interest defenders The EU must end gag lawsuits used to silence individuals and organisations that hold those in positions of power to account. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) are...
The first rule of law report published today by the European Commission echoes Transparency International EU’s concerns over ineffective rule of law and anticorruption measures in place in many EU Member States, and underpins calls for a robust...
