Around 50 Arab League and EU leaders met for the first Arab-European summit in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, to discuss topics ranging from migration to terrorism. Despite strong disagreements over human rights, they pledged...

A “common African position paper” leaked to the Guardian reveals that the African Union is determined to kill off the EU’s plan to build "regional disembarkation platforms" on African soil. The paper says that the...

The right-wing conservative government in Austria is planning a constitutional amendment enabling it to impose preventative detention for asylum seekers deemed ‘dangerous’, said Interior Minister Herbert Kickl...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Greece - February 2019

A German peace activist who was convicted of encouraging people to disclose trade secrets has been cleared in a Munich court but the case continues.

The Danish parliament has passed a new bill that facilitates the repatriation of refugees. “We wish to send a very clear signal to refugees that, if you are given permission to stay […], this is temporary,” said...

A new study by the Leibniz Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, shows that the risk of becoming a victim of hate crimes – such as hate speech, offensive graffiti, physical assault, and arson...

A number of YouTube channels dedicated to anti-vaccination conspiracy theories will no longer get money from adverts – Youtube announced on Friday. Google's video platform stopped serving ads to lots of popular...

Italian weekly L'Espresso reports that Russia was planning to support the European election campaign of Italian prime minister Matteo Salvini with 3 million euros in financing for his League party. According to the...

Tech giant Microsoft has warned Europe about the growing threat of Russian hackers interfering in European elections after a hacker group targeted three major European think-tanks: The German Council on Foreign...