After last Tuesday's approval of the Constitutional Court, the Romanian Senate also approved a call for a referendum singed by over 3 million people. At the 7 October referendum Romanian citizens will be asked about...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - September 2017

The Romanian Government has created a tool for challenging NGOs that may oppose its agenda under the guise of monitoring how they spend money received from citizens through tax donations.

Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s new mayor, has told local broadcaster AT5 that she will close mosques if their imams spread messages of hate but ‘only as a last resort’. Halsema, who outlined her strategy to deal with...

As a result of changes to its judicial system, Poland has been suspended from the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ). The European body argues that the country’s judges are no longer seen as being...

Police officers in 12 Italian cities have been given the go-ahead to start using Tasers, despite evidence that they kill.

The Dutch government has abandoned its plans to allow companies to pay people with disabilities less than the legal minimum wage after concluding the process would be too complicated. The plan had been condemned by...

Two separate attacks on migrants, which left several people injured in the state of Saxony-Anhalt this weekend, are being investigated by German police. Two men assaulted two Afgan teenegers in Hasselfelde, while in...

“Tutto il mondo è paese” (“It's the same the world over”) is an Italian television drama that draws inspiration from the reception and integration system developed in the city of Riace by its mayor Domenico Lucano....

Social media companies must remove extremist content within one hour or face hefty fines, according to a new proposal unveiled by the head of the European Commission. But is the motivation for the regulation rooted in politics rather than security?