Brussels, 07/02/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday, 5 February, the European branch of the International Lesbian and Gay Association, ILGA-Europe, published its annual contribution to the European Commission’s consultation for the 2025 Rule of Law Report.
Submitted in January, the document presents the combined analysis of a group of experts from member organisations in nine EU countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.At the end of a year that was full of elections, the association points out, “[T]hreats to democracy and the rule of law are growing both in Europe and globally”.
The escalation of disinformation, hate speech, and discriminatory political discourse as well as the increase in violence and restrictive legislation on an international scale have given ILGA-Europe a reason to establish a link between these threats and the instrumentalisation of LGBTI people.
Attributing these attacks to a “deliberate weakening of rule of law and democratic structures by those in power”, this document thus focuses on rule of law violations and consequently does not include all the fundamental rights violations or all the restrictions suffered by LGBTI people.
The report: https://aeur.eu/f/fef (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)