As the EU begins talks on the new Multiannual Financial Framework, Liberties outlines two proposals on how to safeguard European values through the EU's budget. A model for conditionality of European funds and one for a new fund to support pro-EU NGOs.

The man was placed in a psychiatric hospital despite numerous experts saying he could and should be cared for at home.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Czech Republic - March 2018

The French government had decided to set the age of consent at 15, the minister for gender equality, Marlene Schiappa, announced. French lawmakers aim to make sure that sex with someone younger than 15 would be...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - March 2018

The access to social benefits still represents one of the most sensitive issue in the field of migration. Now, a new handbook available online, edited by Alberto Guariso, in charge of the anti-discrimination service...

The first hearing of the appeal against the judgment of first instance of the Operation Condor trial will take place on 12 April. The first judgment, in January 2017, ended with eight life sentences and 19 acquittals....

Two Italian lawyers are teaming up with a civilian-led organisation to solve a case of suspected murder at a police station in Germany.

The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner has said the EU-Turkey migrant deal is redundant, as migrants and refugees wouldn't try to cross into Greece from Turkey even if the controversial agreement ceased to...

A journalist for a local Polish newspaper has had charges of trespassing dismissed after he had gone to a veterinary clinic to investigate the conditions in which homeless cats were kept at the clinic. The latest...