The EU border agency Frontex is stepping up intelligence gathering of migrants pulled from the Mediterranean in an effort to identify terrorist suspects and criminals. On 1 February, Frontex launched its Themis...
Ethnic profiling isn't just racist, it's bad, counterproductive policing that helps terrorists. The good news: with proper training, security services can target people on the basis of evidence, not colour, and do a better job of keeping us safe.
A Dutch judge has called the minister of education to order because he did not grant a student an exemption for a civic integration course. The refugee student, who had obtained a propaedeutic certificate in Dutch...
Fundación Civio is appealing to the Supreme Court against a judicial interpretation of the Law on Transparency that is not conceived in the law itself and that implies a serious regression in citizens’ right to access public information.
Four months ahead of the deadline, only two countries have implemented into national law the EU's new data protection regulations. Here's why it matters to citizens and not just companies.
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On 31 January 2018, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the College of Commissioners will participate in the launch of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in Belgium. The aim of this Year of...
A new law allows the German intelligence service to spy on foreign journalists. This destroys the trust between journalists and their sources, especially in the case of investigative journalism.
Polish lawmakers on Wednesday passed a controversial law that would make it illegal to refer to Nazi concentration camps as "Polish death camps." Widely speaking, the so-called Holocaust law makes it a crime to...
Fourteen Hungarian civil society organisations have submitted a joint appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, asking the court to declare that the anti-civil act on "foreign funding" violates the groups' fundamental rights.
A new report makes clear that in order to fight poverty in a meaningful and lasting way, the approach must focus on human rights.
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