The Supreme Administrative Court rejected an HFHR complaint in the case of Iraqi citizen Ameer Alkhawlany, with HFHR claiming that Polish courts are ignoring European legal precidents.
The Lithuanian parliament has approved amendments allowing natural persons in Lithuania to petition the Constitutional Court directly. People will be able to go to the Constitutional Court directly to request judicial...
In a ruling against a complaint submitted by Amnesty International Hungary, the Hungarian Constitutional Court has declared that Stop Soros is not unconstitutional. HCLU agrees with Amnesty that this decision means the court has abandoned civil society.
The Constitutional Court of Slovakia has ruled that the mandatory security clearances for judges that were introduced in 2014 are unconstitutional. The Fico government added a provision to the Constitution requiring...
Polish President Andrzej Duda has appointed 27 new Supreme Court judges amid the ongoing rule-of-law row between Warsaw and the European Union. Duda's appointments come on the heels of the EU referring Poland to the...
The Romanian Government has created a tool for challenging NGOs that may oppose its agenda under the guise of monitoring how they spend money received from citizens through tax donations.
Poland's judicial purge aims to punish former communist stooges, argued Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. He listened with a poker face as MEPs said his...
The Czech Constitutional Court has issued a judgment that is in many respects a legal breakthrough for the country. The court ruled on 14 February that persons with disabilities who are in a difficult social situation...
Hungary’s Curia has overruled the decision of the National Election Committee and given the green light to a referendum initiative calling to withdraw the so-called NGO law. The controversial legislation stigmatises...
23 Hungarian NGOs have filed a joint appeal to the Hungarian Constitutional Court against the law stigmatising NGOs.