Police in the German capital Berlin regularly misuse their internal information database, POLIKS. Reports by the daily Morgenpost reveal a case when a police officer used the database to spy on her neighbours for...

New reforms to Poland's judiciary could aggravate the systematic threat to the rule of law in the country, EU Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans told MEPs on November 6. Timmermans is urging the Polish...

Despite its resolution adopted in May that called for the drafting of a report on whether to trigger 'Article 7' sanctions against Hungary, the European Parliament civil liberties committee voted on Monday not to send...

CIVICUS Monitor update on Czech Republic - November 2017

Consent theorists think that the obligation to obey the law can only come from voluntary acceptance. If it can be shown that we have consented to obey the laws, their case is made.

The EU's drug agency has said there is 'growing' evidence that drug consumption rooms are used by marginalised users, improve injecting practices and reduce the visibility of public drug use. The European Monitoring...

More than 20,000 Romanians protested across the country on Sunday against proposed changes to judiciary laws that would make them more tolerant to corruption. One proposal would take away the president’s power to...

There has been a decrease in the number of reports of human trafficking in recent years, but this is no cause for relief: trafficking does not occur less often, but is instead becoming more invisible.

The European Court of Human Rights will examine applications filed by families of victims of the Smolensk plane crash who oppose the exhumation of their loved ones’ bodies.

Politicians arguing in favour of mass surveillance often make a distinction about the kind of information that they want to collect. They argue that just collecting our metadata, rather than content data, is fine. Let's look at that claim...