An article serving as a background material for a panel discussion at the Think Tank Forum: EU Enlargement examines the state of democracy and the rule of law in the WB6 countries. It stresses that ever prolonged stagnation of the EU accession process gradually delegitimized progressive political options and strengthened hybrid regimes across the region. It also emphasizes that usually associated with a single leading figure, reforms to secure the independence of the judiciary, the freedom of the press or the transparency of the elections remained commonly reiterated rhetoric topics in the past years. Read more here.
Source: European
