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DRAFT REPORT (2025/2135(INI))

On the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025

LIBE-PR-778093

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs · Rapporteur: Anna Strolenberg

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This draft report on fundamental rights in the EU in 2024 and 2025 urges the Commission and member states to uphold EU values, combat democratic backsliding, protect media freedom, and address violations at borders, gender-based violence, threats to civil society, and discrimination.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes a resolution that highlights fundamental rights concerns and calls for concrete actions across several areas, including democracy, borders, gender equality, civil society, and anti-discrimination.

Key points

  1. Urges the Commission and member states to respect and promote EU values and to strengthen annual reports on the application of the Charter.
  2. Reiterates the need for an EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, and urges member states to combat corruption and comply with GRECO recommendations.
  3. Expresses concern about pressure on media and journalism, calls for safety of journalists and an end to SLAPP cases, and shares the UN Secretary-General's opinion on algorithms and business models.
  4. Calls for finalising EU accession to the ECHR and for member states to follow recommendations on spyware, including from the PEGA committee and Venice Commission.
  5. Condemns fundamental rights violations at borders, including pushbacks, and urges compliance with international obligations and an end to obstruction of search and rescue efforts.
  6. Calls for full implementation of the Migration and Asylum Pact and expresses concern about lack of preparedness in some member states.
  7. Urges measures to fight anti-gender movements, combat gender-based violence, recognise it as an EU crime, include abortion rights in the Charter, and ratify the Istanbul Convention.
  8. Calls for support and protection of civil society organisations and human rights defenders, condemns criminalisation of solidarity, and urges protection of peaceful assembly.
  9. Reiterates calls to unblock the Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive, present ambitious equality strategies, and tackle xenophobia, racism, and discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people.
  10. Calls for addressing discrimination and social exclusion faced by Roma and persons with disabilities, and ensuring adequate standard of living and healthy environment for all.

Who is affected

  • Journalists and media workers in several member states, including Malta, Greece and Slovakia, face threats and systemic failures in investigations.
  • Civil society organisations and human rights defenders, particularly those assisting refugees and migrants, face prosecution and criminalisation.
  • Refugees and migrants at EU borders experience pushbacks and violations; member states must respect their rights.
  • Women and LGBTIQ+ people are affected by gender-based violence and discrimination; member states are urged to protect their rights.