• The pressure on the European Union’s southern borders has continued unabated since the great migration crisis of 2015.

• Representatives of the Ordo Iuris Institute will participate in the Pan-African Conference on Family Values, which will begin on May 12 in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Ordo Iuris is a partner of the event.

• The theme of the conference will be promoting and protecting family values in difficult times.

• The event will be attended by politicians, scientists, and representatives of social and religious organizations from Africa, Europe, and the USA.

Over the past 70 years, the European Union has evolved from a simple economic cooperation project into a powerful supranational entity with its own currency, court, and ability to impose financial sanctions on Member States. What began as a vision of free trade and peaceful coexistence has transformed into an institution influencing nearly all aspects of governance in Europe, centralizing power at the expense of national sovereignty.

The following updates and adds to an earlier list of violations that was published in October 2024.

• The Polish Sejm is working on a bill to criminalize so-called “hate speech”.

Following the Polish parliamentary elections of October 15, 2023, a new Council of Ministers appointed by an alliance consisting of the center-left Civic Coalition, the center-liberal Poland 2050, the agrarian Polish People’s Party, and the Left was appointed on December 13, 2023, following eight years of rule by the more conservative United Right coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS).