Five EU countries 'deliberately eroding' rule of law, report shows

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Mar 31, 2026 · 268 words

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Claim 1: “A new report by the Civil Liberties Union of Europe points to 'deliberate erosion of the rule of law' in Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, and Slovakia.”

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The provided Wikipedia evidence does not mention any report by the Civil Liberties Union of Europe regarding erosion of the rule of law in the listed countries. No independent sources or direct references confirming the claim were found in the evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Civil Liberties Union for Europe, commonly known as Liberties, is a Berlin-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for civil liberties and human rights across the European Union (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Union_for_Euro…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The supranational union has a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The politics of Bulgaria take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the prime minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Bulgaria

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