{"id":9125,"date":"2026-04-15T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:48:38","slug":"democracy-in-central-southeast-europe-is-still-in-decline-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/04\/15\/democracy-in-central-southeast-europe-is-still-in-decline-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Central, Southeast Europe Is Still in Decline: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Liberties Rule of Law Report 2026 finds democracy and the rule of law are still deteriorating across much of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe, with \u201cactive dismantling\u201d and cumulative decline spreading even into EU institutions. The report categorises Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia as \u201cDismantlers\u201d that are actively eroding rule-of-law institutions. The report also highlights that many EU states remain \u201cStagnators,\u201d showing little progress on repeated European Commission recommendations, and notes a widening \u201cimplementation gap\u201d where most recommendations are repeated without being fully addressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 30, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2026\/03\/30\/democracy-in-central-southeast-europe-is-still-in-decline-report\/rd\/\">balkaninsight.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberties Rule of Law Report 2026 finds democracy and the rule of law are still deteriorating across much of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe, with \u201cactive dismantling\u201d and cumulative decline spreading even into EU institutions. The report categorises Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia as \u201cDismantlers\u201d that are actively eroding rule-of-law institutions. The report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}