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Special EU Summit on Migration on Sunday

June 22, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for an extraordinary summit ahead of next week’s formal EU summit to help Angela Merkel deal with her hawkish interior minister. However, a draft conclusion text for the summit was already trashed by t...
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Nine in 10 Lithuanian Students Don't Report Psychological Violence or Sexual Harassment

June 21, 2018 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

A study by the Lithuanian National Union of Students revealed that 37% of students encounter psychological violence and 5% encounter sexual harassment in academia. The most common forms of psychological violence were: unpleasant sarcasm (25%), ridicule...
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Dutch Not Very Concerned About Fake News

June 21, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

People in the Netherlands are not very concerned about fake news. The Netherlands scored lowest of the 37 examined countries when it comes to concerns about online fake news. The Dutch also have a relatively high trust in their news media, according t...
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New Italy Public Housing Law Is Unconstitutional

June 20, 2018 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

"The 10th attempt to pass an ideological bill crying out 'ours first' has failed to pass the test of constitutionality," ASGI said in response to the recent decision in a case concerning access to public and social housing in Liguria, Italy. The center...
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EU States Poised to Back Asylum Reform Laws

June 20, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

EU states appear likely to agree this week on three of the seven EU asylum reform laws proposed by the European Commission in the summer of 2016. A senior Commission official on 18 June said provisional agreements had been reached qualification regulat...
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Spain Wants to Rid Ceuta and Melilla of Anti-Migrant Razor Wire

June 19, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

"I'm going to do everything possible to see that these razor wire fences at Ceuta and Melilla are removed," said Spain's interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. The fences separate Morocco from the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla. The tin...
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Venice Commission Asks Hungarian Parliament Not to Vote on Stop Soros Law

June 19, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has asked Hungary’s government not to adopt legislation designed to curtail the activities of NGOs deemed to be supporting illegal immigration prior to the release of its report, due on 22 June. Hungary sh...
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Copyright Reform Interview With Liberties Expert

June 19, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

“What we can see here is that instead of taking into account the citizens’ interests and fundamental rights, it just seems that the Copyright Directive is more likely based on commitments towards big companies that lobby effectively at the EU level,” a...
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Hungarian MP Proposes to Make Homelessness Unconstitutional

June 18, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

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 people were a “burden” on city-dweller...
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Spain Welcomes Migrants From Aquarius Ship

June 18, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The migrant rescue ship that last week rescued 629 people docked in Valencia on 17 June, bringing an end to a standoff that laid bare tensions between EU member states about immigration. Italy's new far-right government refused to allow the Aquarius in...
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