Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2135(INI)
Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 29 April 2026. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 10 July 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 23 February 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 5 March 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 29 April 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
29 April 2026 · decision 24
Justice, rule of law & rights, Resolution
Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025
Adopted 328 for · 199 against · 98 abstained by a clear majority
AI summary:The resolution calls for action to uphold EU values, protect democracy, address rights violations at borders, combat gender-based violence, support civil society, and fight discrimination.
What changed
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report expands significantly, adding detailed recitals and operational paragraphs on rule of law, media freedom, technology, migration, gender, and anti-discrimination. It strengthens calls for EU mechanisms, enforcement of fundamental rights, and protection of civil society and journalists. It adds new sections on prisoners, social rights, and environmental impacts, and calls for new EU legislation on hate crime and abortion. The changes are substantive, with no purely formal or wording changes.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Anna Strolenberg (Greens)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Lukas Mandl (EPP), Marco Tarquinio (S&D), Marieke Ehlers (Patriots), Assita Kanko (ECR), Lucia Yar (Renew), Pernando Barrena Arza (The Left), Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 29 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on fundamental rights in the EU in 2024 and 2025 condemns democratic backsliding, attacks on media freedom, and violations at borders, and urges the Commission and Member States to uphold EU values, protect civil society, and combat discrimination and gender-based violence.
Tabled for plenary· 5 Mar 2026
AI summary:This resolution addresses the state of fundamental rights in the EU in 2024 and 2025, covering democracy, rule of law, media freedom, technology, migration, gender equality, civil society, and discrimination.
Committee draft· 30 Sept 2025
AI summary: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.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
29 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 29 Apr 2026 Report A10-0042/2026Adopted text TA10-0146/2026
28 April 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
21 April – 22 April 2026
69 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Amendment 1Amendments 2–8Amendments 9–18Amendments 19–20Amendments 21–30Amendments 31–38Amendments 39–46Amendments 47–56Amendments 57–60Amendments 61–66Amendments 67–69
5 March 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
23 February 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
12 November 2025
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (LIBE)Amendments in committee (LIBE)
30 September 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
10 July 2025
Referred to the LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2135(INI)