"The 10th attempt to pass an ideological bill crying out 'ours first' has failed to pass the test of constitutionality," ASGI said in response to the recent decision in a case concerning access to public and social...

EU states appear likely to agree this week on three of the seven EU asylum reform laws proposed by the European Commission in the summer of 2016. A senior Commission official on 18 June said provisional agreements had...

We too often forget that juveniles in youth detention centers are common, everyday people, and not the “bad guys” they are so often portrayed as.

“What we can see here is that instead of taking into account the citizens’ interests and fundamental rights, it just seems that the Copyright Directive is more likely based on commitments towards big companies that...

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....