Marriage remains defined as an union between spouses in the Romanian constitution, after only 20% of registered voters turned out in the referendum. A minimum of 30% was needed to validate the vote.
In addition to adopting the act known as Stop Soros, the Hungarian government has amended the Fundamental Law, the nation's Constitution.
The government deal signed by the Five Star Movement and the League includes a chapter that has caused great concerns for those who defend constitutional values. For example, while the Italian Constitution refers to...
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s former lawyer, Fidesz MP Istvan Bajkai, wants to amend the Constitution to ban homeless people from living and sleeping in public spaces in Hungary. He told news outlets that homeless...
Dutch rights groups are calling on the country's interior minister to express the need to explicitly prohibit LGBTI discrimination in the Constitution.
The Lithuanian Parliament rejected amendments to the Constitution granting individuals the right to petition the Constitutional Court. The amendment sought to widen the list of petitioners able to appeal to the Court...
Local authorities around Poland are often involved in publishing newspapers with commercial ad columns. Such activity raises doubts about its compatibility with many parts of the Constitution. Local authorities, by...
The planned amendment of the law does not ensure remedies to human rights violations identified by the Hungarian Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
Sexual orientation and handicap should be mentioned in Article 1 of the Constitution, which forbids discrimination, Dutch State Secretary of Social Affairs Jetta Klijnsma has said. Klijnsma is of the opinion that this...
A secret contract imposed on a photographer who wanted to publish photos of a Dutch detention center constituted a violated of the freedom of expression.
