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After leaders of the Italian populist Five Star Movement (M5S) called journalists “jackals” and “whores” Italian press unions have called on journalists to join protests. Journalists’ unions, FNSI and Usigrai...
Support for democracy has fallen in ex-communist Eastern European countries since 2006 a study by the German Economic Institute suggests. Researchers warn that the progress the region has achieved since the fall of...
The Romanian government should “immediately suspend” efforts to reform the judicial system and criminal code, and appoint a new anti-corruption prosecutor – the European Commission (EC) said in its annual report on...
If a restrictive new act on public gatherings on national holidays is accepted, the Hungarian government will have found another way to seriously restrict freedom of assembly, according to the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.
Bulgaria has become the latest EU country to say that it will not sign the global migration agreement in Morocco in December, after Hungary, Austria, Poland, Czechia and Croatia also said they would not sign. In July,...
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EU officials' ongoing discussions on the rule of law in Hungary and Poland have become mired in disagreement about procedure, drowning out debate on the substance of the accusations against the two governments. EU...
See through the cheap tricks of populists: there is no constant fear and chaos in Europe. Fake danger only serves the interest of those with authoritarian ambitions. Watch the 4th episode of our Survival Guide to Authoritarianism.
Authoritarians will create chaos and a constant sense of danger as an excuse to enact new laws, each one limiting your freedoms and civil liberties more than the last. They will disguise them as being for your protection, but they aren't.
The Italian Constitutional Court is to rule of the legitimacy of a provision that punishes people who help others to commit suicide
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged leaders of the world to reject nationalism, describing it as a "betrayal of patriotism". Speaking at a ceremony in Paris to mark the centenary of the end of World War...
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