EU Ministers for European Affairs held, on Tuesday 12 April in Luxembourg, their fourth ‘country-by-country’ discussion on the Rule of law since 2020 on the basis of the European Commission’s latest annual report (see EUROPE B12766A2). For this exercise led this time by the French Presidency of the EU Council, five countries were on the agenda - Hungary, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria and the Netherlands - questioned on the fight against corruption, the independence of the judiciary, the...