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MEPs on European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties want annual reports on Rule of law to be more closely linked to corrective tools with sanctions

Brussels, 20/04/2022 (Agence Europe)

Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties adopted by 54 votes to 11 with 1 abstention, on Wednesday 20 April, the own-initiative report by Terry Reintke (Greens/EFA, Germany) on the Commission’s 2021 annual report on the state of the Rule of law in the EU27.

The report highlights the usefulness of the Commission’s work, which will include recommendations to countries in its third edition in 2022, but improvements are needed.

In particular, MEPs regret that,...