The International Day of Parliamentarism –established by the UN General Assembly in 2018 through resolution A/RES/72/278– is celebrated annually on 30 June, the date of the creation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1889, an organisation that brings together all national parliaments. Parliaments are the cornerstone of democracy, one of the fundamental checks and balances of...
The European Network of Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI), the network that brings together National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) from across Europe to improve the promotion and protection of human rights in the region, has compiled information provided by the Spanish Ombudsman on the quality of our rule of law and made a series of recommendations. By...
Since 2020, every year in early July, the European Commission usually publishes the annual Rule of Law Report, which examines Member States' development in the field of justice on four specific axes: the judicial system, the anti-corruption legal framework, media pluralism and other institutional issues on checks and balances.It is a separate initiative from the...
