Upward trends:
Downward trends: 
The Anticorruption Monitor
Others monitor corruption. But we think it makes sense to monitor anticorruption at the same time. There would not be so much corruption if anticorruption would be really adequate.
The EU has chastised member states who do not adhere to its professed values. However, the new report about the rule of law falls short in providing the objective basis to withhold funding to those who defy democracy, a just goal still lacking the proper means.
EU funds should be cut on direct and easier to prove criteria related to their poor governance, as shown in the EU Single Market procurement scoreboard. Recovery funds should not go to the political clienteles of government parties trespassing on rule of law, but to the broader constituencies of citizens and businesses in every member state.
— This article is a version of a comment published under Carnegie’s Reshaping European Democracy project —
