The number of people in the Netherlands awarded damages because of unjustified detention increases every year, and judges in the country tend to place suspects in pre-trial detention too quickly.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership represents a major social, environmental and democratic issue—and danger.
A month after the refugee camp in Ponte Mammolo (near Rome) was demolished by bulldozers, the former occupants, now living in tents near the metro station, wrote a letter to the mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, to stop...
According to the Slovak government, the excessive number of Roma in "special schools" is due to a higher rate of inbreeding in their families, which leads to developmental disorders. This was in response to the EC...
The abuse of two refugees by a German police officer is still under investigation, but the silence of fellow officers brings forth questions about the culture of the police force and a call for their prosecution.
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With their action "The Arrival," the German artist collective Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für politische Schönheit) will transfer the bodies of dead refugees from the borders of the European Union to Germany....
A 55-year-old Italian man has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for cultivating five marijuana plants to use to help treat his epilepsy. His neurologist had supported the decision to use therapeutic...
Employment agencies, employers and insurance companies in the Netherlands force labor migrants to pay much too high contributions for their health insurance. Part of the money flows back to the employers through...
The UN Committee against Torture recently published its concluding observations after its review of Spain in April 2015, criticizing the little action that has been taken to fulfill the recommendations presented in 2009.
In the fight against the radicalization of Muslims, there will be a European workgroup against preachers of hate and violence on the initiative of the Dutch minister of security and justice. Under the direction of the...
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