The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report – annual report 2025

Tabled by Petra Steger, Marieke Ehlers, Jorge Buxadé Villalba

126. Removed: Urges Added: Calls on the Commission to Removed: take further action under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary as regards other breaches of the rule of law, such as those related to the judiciary; highlights that the weakening of the judicial system and of the independence and impartiality of public administration and undue supplier concentration in procurement procedures represent systemic rule of law risks that threaten sound financial management; stresses that violations of rules, manipulation of, or undue favouritism in calls for tender and applications involving EU funding, as well as administrative harassment breaching the equal treatment of local and regional authorities, companies or other final recipients or beneficiaries, and their access to Added: refrain from using the disbursement of EU funds as Removed: well as procurement, audit bodies, anti-corruption safeguards or control systems constitute direct risks to the EU budget and require consistent and stringent application of conditionality; Added: a political instrument to interfere in Member States’ democratic processes or to exert pressure on democratically elected governments; stresses the importance of a robust legal framework to prevent corruption and the misappropriation of EU funds, and of ensuring that it is applied equally, objectively and in a non-discriminatory manner across all Member States, irrespective of their governments’ political orientation;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.226v01-00