The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report

11.6.2025 A10-0100/14

Amendment 14

Tamás Deutsch, Csaba Dömötör, Viktória Ferenc, Kinga Gál, Enikő Győri, András Gyürk, György Hölvényi, András László, Ernő Schaller-Baross, Pál Szekeres, Annamária Vicsek, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella, Christophe Bay, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, Marie Dauchy, Valérie Deloge, Mélanie Disdier, Anne-Sophie Frigout, Angéline Furet, Jean-Paul Garraud, Catherine Griset, France Jamet, Virginie Joron, Fabrice Leggeri, Julien Leonardelli, Thierry Mariani, Aleksandar Nikolic, Philippe Olivier, Gilles Pennelle, Pascale Piera, Pierre Pimpie, Julie Rechagneux, André Rougé, Julien Sanchez, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Rody Tolassy, Matthieu Valet, Alexandre Varaut, Séverine Werbrouck, Paolo Borchia, Susanna Ceccardi, Anna Maria Cisint, Aldo Patriciello, Silvia Sardone, Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Roberto Vannacci, Gerolf Annemans, Barbara Bonte, Tom Vandendriessche, Nikola Bartůšek, Jaroslav Bžoch, Klara Dostalova, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Jana Nagyová, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Filip Turek, Anders Vistisen, Rachel Blom, Ton Diepeveen, Marieke Ehlers, Sebastian Kruis, Sebastiaan Stöteler, Auke Zijlstra, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Jorge Martín Frías, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Hermann Tertsch, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Tiago Moreira de Sá, António Tânger Corrêa, Vilis Krištopans, Anna Bryłka, Tomasz Buczek, Elisabeth Dieringer, Roman Haider, Gerald Hauser, Georg Mayer, Petra Steger, Harald Vilimsky

Report A10-0100/2025

Ana Catarina Mendes

The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report

(2024/2078(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 70 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	70a. Notes with concern the Commission’s politically biased monitoring of rule of law benchmarks through the rule of law toolbox; calls on the Commission to stop political attacks against right-wing, conservative governments; regrets the fact that the Commission is abusing rule of law conditionality to withhold EU funds from governments on a political basis and is thereby violating the principle of sincere cooperation enshrined in the Treaties; calls on the Commission to adhere to the principle of sincere cooperation with the governments of all Member States, irrespective of their political leaning; calls on the Commission to release the remaining EU funds to which Hungary is rightfully entitled;

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11.6.2025 A10-0100/15

Amendment 15

Report A10-0100/2025

Ana Catarina Mendes

The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report

(2024/2078(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 74 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	74a. Deplores the double standards exhibited by the Commission when it overtly terminated the Article 7 TEU procedure against Poland after what it deemed to be a politically favourable election outcome in 2023, despite the fact that most elements of the action plan have not even been initiated by the Polish Government yet; underlines the fact that the Article 7 procedure against Hungary has been ongoing for seven years without any outcome; calls on the Council to swiftly terminate the Article 7 procedure against Hungary;

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11.6.2025 A10-0100/16

Amendment 16

Report A10-0100/2025

Ana Catarina Mendes

The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report

(2024/2078(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 79

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
79. Expresses concern that the suspension of EU funds could be misused as a political weapon against civil society and local authorities; recalls that the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation ensures that final recipients should not lose access to EU funds if sanctions are applied to their government; calls for ‘smart conditionality’ that would enable national governments undermining the rule of law to be bypassed by allocating decommitted EU funds directly to local and regional authorities and to non-governmental organisations and businesses that comply with EU law, as well as by simplifying the reallocation of funds intended for the benefit of the Member State in question to other EU programmes; proposes the establishment of a transparent system for local authorities to request EU funds when national governments block or misuse EU funds; stresses the importance of strictly applying the conditionality mechanisms as enshrined in the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and in the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans in a transparent manner;	79. Deplores attempts to bypass national governments by introducing the notion of ‘smart conditionality’, which would violate the MFF; stresses the democratic legitimacy of Member States’ governments, as opposed to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and CSOs that do not have the same legitimacy and do not contribute to the EU’s budget;

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11.6.2025 A10-0100/17

Amendment 17

Report A10-0100/2025

Ana Catarina Mendes

The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report

(2024/2078(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 89 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	89a. Notes with concern the increasing interference in the Member States’ social, economic, academic, medical and political spheres by foreign-funded, fundamentalist religious organisations such as the Muslim Brotherhood;

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