Category: European Law and the Region

Bulgaria is an EU Member State facing long-standing rule of law concerns, including persistent deficiencies in judicial independence and an increasingly troubling pattern of fundamental rights violations. Compared to other EU Member States with similar entrenched structural problems, like Poland, Hungary or Romania, Bulgaria has not featured prominently in the Commission’s rule of law enforcement … →

Introduction The conclusion of Romania’s 2025 presidential elections provides a critical opportunity to examine how evolving regulatory frameworks have reshaped political advertising in the digital age. The elections, which saw a highly scrutinized digital campaign environment, provided a practical implementation context for the interplay between Regulation (EU) 2024/900 on transparency and targeting of political advertising, … →