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Press Release on the CRoLEV Short Essay Competition
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the Rule of Law and European Values (CRoLEV) (2022-25) at the School of Law of the University of Central Lancashire in Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus) organised a Short Essay Competition in March 2024 on the topic: “Critically discuss the state of the Rule of Law and Democratic Values in the EU in light of widespread disinformation and propaganda” with submission deadline the 14th of June 2024.
The First Prize was awarded to Ms. Ksenia Fedoseeva, Law Student at UCLan Cyprus for her essay with title ‘Reinforcing the Rule of Law by Combating Disinformation: An Unreliable Path to Democratic Stability in the EU’ which can be found here. The review committee decided that the essay followed a clear and comprehensive structure assessing the potential contribution of disinformation on the backsliding of the rule of law. Also, it was very well-researched, and it set out very interesting and original arguments, including rejecting the necessity of excessively focusing on preventing disinformation as a way to tackle the backsliding of the rule of law due to the inadequate link between them.
On the 6th of August, the First Prize was awarded in person to the First Winner at the University premises, by CRoLEV’s Director Prof. Stephanie Laulhe-Shaelou and CRoLEV’s Senior Researcher Dr Katerina Kalaitzaki.
