Fundamental Rights Report 2018

Summary:

2018 annual report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental rights (FRA). The report reviews major developments in the field, identifying both achievements and remaining areas of concern.

Further information:

The year 2017 brought both progress and setbacks in terms of rights protection. The European Pillar of Social Rights marked an important move towards a more ‘social Europe’. But, as experiences with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights underscore, agreement on a text is merely a first step. Even in its eighth year as the EU’s binding bill of rights, the Charter’s potential was not fully exploited, highlighting the need to more actively promote its use. Results from FRA’s second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II), as well as myriad national research, left no doubt that much still needs to be done to ensure equality and non-discrimination across the EU.

The report is accompanied by a publication presenting FRA’s opinions on the main developments in the thematic areas covered, and a synopsis of the evidence supporting these opinions. In so doing, it provides a compact but informative overview of the main fundamental rights challenges confronting the EU and its Member States.

• Alternative Source 1

FRA: Fundamental Rights Report 2018: FRA opinions http://doi.org/10.2811/334370

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