30.6.2025

The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published its annual report on the protection of fundamental rights in the EU Member States. The Fundamental Rights Report 2025 provides an overview of major developments and challenges in the EU in 2024. Its introductory chapter highlights three key areas: racism, hate crime and discrimination, migration and asylum at EU external borders, and the growing role of digitalisation and artificial intelligence in today’s societies. Specific focus chapters cover fundamental rights in elections, gender-based violence, and the national implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Among the key concerns in 2024 the report lists a growing threat of online electoral manipulation and obstacles to electoral participation, persistent and widespread violence against women, rising online hate, and ill-treatment of migrants along EU borders.

The Fundamental Rights Report 2025 is based on the results of FRA’s own primary quantitative and qualitative research and on secondary desk research at the national level conducted by FRA’s multidisciplinary research network, FRANET. The Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, together with the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku, currently form the national focal point of FRANET in Finland. The Finnish country report is also available on-line on the FRA website. Part I of the country report reviews political participation and equality in the 2024 elections in Finland. Part II covers the protection of women victims of violence in Finland.