CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - June 2018

"I'm going to do everything possible to see that these razor wire fences at Ceuta and Melilla are removed," said Spain's interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. The fences separate Morocco from the Spanish...

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has asked Hungary’s government not to adopt legislation designed to curtail the activities of NGOs deemed to be supporting illegal immigration prior to the release of its...

Non-synthetic medicines continue to be scarce in Italian pharmacies, although the number of stores that specialize in selling legal cannabis-based products has increased.

The EU’s top justice official will visit Malta this week to meet officers investigating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The visit by Věra Jourová, the EU commissioner for justice, comes after a damning report by...

The European Court of Human Rights has found that Lithuania violated Article 3 (freedom from torture) and Article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of TK v. Lithuania....

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s former lawyer, Fidesz MP Istvan Bajkai, wants to amend the Constitution to ban homeless people from living and sleeping in public spaces in Hungary. He told news outlets that homeless...

The migrant rescue ship that last week rescued 629 people docked in Valencia on 17 June, bringing an end to a standoff that laid bare tensions between EU member states about immigration. Italy's new far-right...

The EU will establish a 10,000-strong standing corp of guards to patrol its borders, part of plans that call for tripling to €5 billion its yearly spending targeting illegal migration. The plans also call for new...

Four men have been given 25 years in prison in Hungary for the deaths of 71 migrants who suffocated in a sealed lorry in August 2015. The case, in which a gang of smugglers drove from Hungary to Austria and left the...