Justice

With civil society organisations increasingly questioned by those in power, NGOs need political representation and popular support.

Could reforms on the horizon in Greece mean the end of environmental protection?

In order to make sense of this month’s devastating fire in London, it has to be placed in a context of austerity, deregulation & privatisation.

The UK’s counter-terrorism measures include the controversial Prevent strategy – why has it come under fire?

Romania’s huge anti-corruption protests are significant for the country and Europe.

The term ‘security’ is used as though it were neutral, but in fact it is underpinned by assumptions and prejudice, with some regarded as worthy of protection while ‘others’ are seen as threatening.

What can a public tribunal do – such as the Monsanto one – to hold global corporations accountable?

Joanna Maycock explains why women’s rights are first in the firing line in times of crisis.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a coalition of Left-wing, Kurdish and progressive parties, was founded in in 2012 in order to help smaller parties amplify their voices and gain access to the Turkish Parliament, where the electoral system stacks the odds strongly against them. In both the 2014 and subsequently recalled 2015 parliamentary elections, the party succeeded in winning over 10% of the vote, the necessary threshold for entering Parliament.

In 2013, Rui Tavares, then Portuguese Member of the European Parliament among the Greens-EFA group, put forward a report that investigated the threats to fundamental rights that Orban’s government had given rise to in Hungary since 2010, and proposed mechanisms for a common European response to such actions, both in Hungary and potential future similar cases.