The Russian law prohibiting 'propaganda' for homosexuality is discriminatory and contrary to freedom of expression. The European Court of Human Rights (EHRM) ruled on Tuesday.
Helmut Kohl is the first person to become a 'state funeral' of the European Union. The tribute must take place within two weeks in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It is an initiative of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who called the former Chancellor of the United States once 'the greatest European' he had ever met.
The European Parliament has lifted the immunity of Front National headline Marine le Pen on Thursday. The French authorities therefore requested that they had called the mayor of Nice a jihadist's accomplice.
It is still uncertain whether the EU countries can meet the climate targets set in Paris. Even if the greenhouse gas emissions by the agriculture, transport and construction sector by 3030 are 30 percent lower, it is only the question of whether it is possible.
The main building of the European Parliament in Brussels will be in 2019 at the end of its life and may be demolished. There are 'crumbling', construction defects, leaks and heating problems, in official documents.
The European Parliament in Strasbourg is holding short speeches in minority languages on Monday evening, but the interpreters are not allowed to translate. The rules only provide translation of the 24 official EU languages and parliamentary chairman Tajani does not want to deviate from that, he writes in a letter to the initiators.
Norwegian massacre Anders Behring Breivik has officially changed his name. The man who is 21 years in prison for 77 people killed in 2011 is now living as Fjotolf Hansen, reporting Norwegian media on Friday.
The Supreme Court of Norway does not appeal to Anders Breivik's appeal. The massacre wanted to appeal against a March decision by a court that ruled that his human rights in prison were not violated.
Following a change in the Rules of Procedure in the European Parliament, journalists working in Brussels suspect that the EU parliament applies censorship. Since this year, the chairman may decide to interrupt the livestream of a plenary debate, if a parliamentarian makes defamatory, racist or xenophobic statements. '' This is an intervention in the press freedom '', says Tom Weingärtner from the International Press Association API.
Over a year, Netflix, HBO and Spotify subscribers throughout the EU can enjoy the Dutch offer of streaming services. This also applies to paid subscriptions to online sports channels, e-books and games.
The patience of the European Parliament with Hungary is on. The nationalist government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would constitute a danger to the rule of law and democracy and should be addressed.
Belgium treats its detainees 'inhuman and degrading'. Therefore, the state has to pay two men a compensation of 3500 and 11.500 euros respectively, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.
The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe has no confidence in her chairman Pedro Agramunt and derives him from his powers. A trip from the Spanish senator in March with a delegation from the Russian parliament to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, paid by Syria, is not acceptable to parliamentarians.
Europe must have a special criminal court to prosecute returning Syrians fighters for genocide, for example. This plea held a former judge of the tribunal for Sierra Leone, Geoffrey Robertson.
The Council of Europe is examining Turkey as a result of the deterioration of human rights situation. Also the prosperous rule of law and the functioning of democracy are again under surveillance.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is not eligible for the British parliamentary elections this year. The Eurosceptic politician stated in The Daily Telegraph wanting to use his fame in the European Parliament to enforce good conditions for the British departure from the European Union.
The Council of Europe says no opportunities to remove the outcome of the Turkish referendum. 'No international institution has the opportunity to invalidate a referendum outcome in a country,' said Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland on Thursday.
Negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom over the 'United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum 'will be started after the British general election on 8 June. This committee chairman Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday agreed after a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Russia on Thursday in connection with the bloody hostage crisis in 2004 in a school in Beslan. Islamist terrorists took at the beginning of the school in the southern Russian city of more than 1,000 people hostage, mostly children and their parents. The tragedy led to more than 330 deaths, of which more than 180 children.
The CDA threatens to halt cooperation with the Hungarian Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Parliament. Recent actions by the Hungarian government which conflict can expect no sympathy from European values.
Ukrainians of biometric passports from next summer to visa-free travel to Europe. Every six months, they may be in the EU ninety days, but work is not allowed.
The relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union has never been a love affair, and certainly not a wild passion. ' Maybe it might just not be. We must seize the United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum to revive the European project new life. '
Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke is severely punished for sexist statements he made early this month. He said during a debate that women should earn less than men because they are 'weaker, smaller and less intelligent.'
The European Commission has 'serious concerns' about the power that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to himself hopes to attract in the referendum on April 16. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warns that the candidate country Turkey will be re-evaluated if the people vote for the amendment.
The Turkish Minister of Justice is angry because he can speak Thursday night no compatriots on the referendum in Turkey. Bekir Bozdag calls it 'unacceptable' that the city Gaggenau forbade the meeting due to the expected large number of visitors. He canceled a meeting with his German counterpart Minister of anger.
The government wants to stop the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Turkish president Erdogan there comes a speech in connection with the referendum on the constitution in Turkey in April. The state has asked to help the national government in Berlin to prevent the speech.
Turkish President Erdogan will visit Germany next month in connection with the referendum to be held in April in Turkey on changes to the constitution and the transition to a presidential system. According to German media he will after an official visit to Strasbourg in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia make a stop to speak to Turks.
All travelers, including EU citizens, entering or leaving the Schengen area should be checked at the border on registration databases. The Member States have a year to the obligation referred to pick up passengers with stolen or forged passports and ID cards, in legal order.
Jean-Claude Juncker has had enough knots to be cut through as the EU countries on contentious issues such as food safety does not come themselves. The President of the European Commission wants Member States to assume their responsibilities and not hide behind 'Brussels'.
The European trend to detain asylum seekers and migrants must be reversed. That allowed human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks of the Council of Europe on Tuesday.
