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Thanks to new legal changes, it is now possible to lift professional secrecy - the duty of confidentiality of professionals like doctors and prosecutors - in some cases.

Liberties and other rights groups urge the European Commission not to rush to adopt measures on fake news before fully understanding the human rights implications of any new policy.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Czech Republic - April 2018

The European Union’s justice commissioner announced on 23 April that she will visit Malta to look at its anti-money laundering moves and check on how an investigation is going into the murder of investigative...

The latest annual report on global press freedom by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) finds rising hostility in the EU towards journalists and their work. Although Europe still ranks as the highest region on RSF's...

Social media companies are making changes to their services ahead of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entering force on May 25. Snapchat now says it will stop retaining certain data, including precise...

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 24 April ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights affords protection if an asylum seeker with severe effects from past torture would be "significantly and...

The head of Germany's Jewish community has advised Jews not to wear kippahs, the traditional skullcaps, in public. The advice follows several anti-Semitic attacks across the country. Josef Schuster, the president of...