On Monday 14 October, the NGO Liberties (Civil Liberties Union for Europe) published a report in which it points out the shortcomings of the Commission’s annual report on the Rule of law, which it considers to be over-optimistic and not very fact-based.
“The Commission is missing the point, with a generally positive assessment of vaguely defined progress”, sums up the NGO.
“To obtain a more realistic picture, the European Commission’s monitoring exercise should be more...