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Published on: 05/01/2026 - 6:00 p.m.

In Hungary and Bulgaria, the recent results of the legislative elections promise to shake up the dynamics of the European Union. Hungarians have ended the reign of Viktor Orban, whose 16 years in power were synonymous with control over justice, the media, the economy and civil society. Bulgaria, for its part, chose Rumen Radev, president for ten years who became Prime Minister on an anti-corruption, but also pro-Russian, speech.

In Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who lost her referendum on a controversial justice reform, is accused of increasingly controlling the media. Uncertainty also in Poland, where Donald Tusk is struggling to reform a rule of law locked by the ultraconservative Law and Justice party, in power before him.

So what are the prospects for the rule of law in the European Union?

Program prepared by Oihana Almandoz, Isabelle Romero, Perrine Desplats and Aline Bottin

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