According to the Social Development Goal 16, the European Union has made positive progress when it comes to accountability, inclusivity and justice in their institutions.

The SDGs, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, provide a new global framework of policy aimed to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change.

SDG 16, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations established, aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, in order to provide access to justice for all and to build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

The proportion of the EU population that has confidence in the European Parliament remains constant at 50% compared to 2021, and up 3% compared to 2017.

However, in Luxembourg, the percentage of people with confidence in the EU Parliament has dropped 9% from 2021 to 2022, with 57% still being above European average.

The proportion of the EU population who perceives the independence of the judiciary as very good or fairly good has nonetheless decreased by one percentage to 53%, compared to 2021.

In the Grand Duchy 77% of the population perceive the justice system as very or fairly independent, 7% up from 2019.

These are only two of the six indicators used to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 16) 'Peace, justice and strong institutions'.

The proportion of the population reporting crime, violence and vandalism in EU neighbourhoods was 11% in 2021, down from 13% in 2016.

In Luxembourg, the percentage of people reporting crime, violence or vandalism in their area has gone down since 2014. While 16.8% were still reporting crime, in 2020 only about 11% have been doing so.

At the same time, EU citizens' trust in the EU institutions - the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Central Bank - has steadily increased.

As for corruption, the average score of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in the EU was 64 in 2021, with wide variations across Member States.

The CPI, which indicates the perceived level of corruption in the public sector, ranged from 42 in Bulgaria to 88 in Denmark and Finland.

Luxembourg's CPI currently lies at 81.