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Bulgaria and Romania should be admitted to the Schengen area as soon as possible, members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee urge. MEPs want EU ministers to swiftly approve the accession of...
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), wants to adopt a resolution in defence of liberal democracies. The largest political grouping in the EU is reacting to mounting pressure that has allowed the rise of...
Authoritarians – even the democratically elected ones – love to blame the media for pointing out their lies, corruption or whatever else they were hoping to keep secret. This is nothing new.
CIVICUS Monitor update on Hungary - November 2018
Although the attitudes of authoritarians haven't changed all the much over time, the media landscape has. It's now more accessible – and ripe for abuse – than ever before.
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Hackers have published private messages from some 81,000 Facebook accounts, and may have access to 120 million users' accounts in total. The group of hackers had been attempting to sell the private messages from...
Citizens of the German state of Hesse have finally voted to scrap the death penalty from its Constitution, phasing out a 69-year-old legal anomaly that had allowed it. Eighty-three percent of voters voted to abolish...
Italy was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council with 180 votes. For the countries of the Western European group three places were allocated and there were three candidates, meaning there are no defeated countries in the European Union area.
On 8 October, the first real appeal hearing for the Condor Trial took place, revealing new documents about Operation Condor.
CIVICUS Monitor update on Romania - November 2018
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