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In a text adopted at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, EU leaders opened the door to cracking encryption of digital services like Whatsapp as a counter-terrorism measure. The text, which was amended at the...
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NGOs Germanwatch and Misereor have highlighted numerous instances of human rights abuses by German companies operating abroad. In a joint publication released on Wednesday, June 21, the NGOs documented over 10 cases...
The border guards' decision to return the Chechen national for the 28th time was in direct violation of a Strasbourg court ruling on the man's case.
Coffee company Starbucks on Tuesday announced that it will hire 2,500 refugees in Europe as part of a worldwide hiring plan. The chain said it would hire the refugees at its stores in Europe in eight countries over...
The EU has signed the Istanbul Convention, which was adopted by the Council of Europe in 2011. The Istanbul Convention is the most comprehensive international treaty to combat violence against women and domestic...
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Berlin is considering a ban on sexist advertisements in public places. The ban would target misogynist advertising that degrades women on billboards and other publicly owned ad space. The city has been testing the...
Heated debate has broken out across Italy about the sentence of Salvatore Riina, possibly the most notorious mafia boss alive, whose health suggests that house arrest would be a more just form of detention.
Under the current law, obtaining Italian citizenship as a second-generation immigrant is almost impossible, meaning there are over 800,000 "orphans of citizenship." The long-awaited reform of the citizenship law,...
More than 2,000 migrants have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean to to Europe so far this year, following three more shipwrecks that were announced on World Refugee Day. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said 129...
"At a time when the space for civil society is shrinking in an increasing number of countries," the EU reaffirmed its commitment to support NGOs outside Europe. They expressed their opposition to any restrictions on...
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