The EU is getting a tough reality check. The European Commission on Tuesday will unveil a signature rule-of-law report intended to identify and prevent democratic backsliding — just as the EU is being surrounded by reminders that it hasn’t been able to halt that backsliding with such efforts. Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law has left European leaders questioning whether the country should even be in the EU. A Polish court has suggested the country can simply ignore some EU court orders, which are meant to reign supreme. And desperate journalists in Slovenia are trying to alert the broader public to government pressure on public media.