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European Civic Forum: Civic Space Report 2020: Stories From The Lockdown
A new report from the European Civic Forum looks at the how civil society has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the pandemic has affected the work of civil society organisations. The report includes a general analysis of the situation in the EU, seven interviews and six case studies looking at the situation for LGBTI people and the situation in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Ireland and Slovenia. Read More
Romania, Poland and Czech Republic acquiring drones for border surveillance, military purposes
A number of NATO member states in Eastern Europe - namely Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic - are acquiring a variety of drones with the aim of stepping up border surveillance activities, amongst other things. Read More
Balkan spies ‘feed’ EU’s police database via Czechs
"Secret services in at least one non-EU Western Balkan state are indirectly feeding the EU's police database with alerts on suspected foreign terrorist fighters, according to a confidential document seen by this website." Read More
CJEU: Advocate General Sharpston: Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic have breached EU law by refusing relocation of refugees
CJEU: Advocate General Sharpston: the Court should rule that, by refusing to comply with the provisional and time-limited mechanism for the mandatory relocation of applicants for international protection, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have Read More
CJEU: Advocate General Sharpston: Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic have breached EU law by refusing relocation of refugees
CJEU: Advocate General Sharpston: the Court should rule that, by refusing to comply with the provisional and time-limited mechanism for the mandatory relocation of applicants for international protection, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have Read More
Germany: Police Laws in Saxony: Czech, Polish and German Criticism on Plans for Facial Recognition in the Border Region
"Together with our Czech partner organisation IURE and the Polish Panoptykon Foundation, we strongly criticize the planned preventive automatic facial recognition in the border region of the German federal state of Saxony, the Czech Republic and Poland." Read More
Questionnaire: National parliaments’ activities on alleged CIA activities in European countries
37. European national parliaments: Questionnaire: National Parliaments' activities on alleged CIA activities in European countries 36. European national parliaments: Summary of questionnaires received from National Parliaments by the TDIP Secretariat Response to questionnaire 35. Austria Read More
Court of Justice of the European Union: The Court dismisses the actions brought by Slovakia and Hungary against the provisional mechanism for the mandatory relocation of asylum seekers
"That mechanism actually contributes to enabling Greece and Italy to deal with the impact of the 2015 migration crisis and is proportionate..... Since the decision is a non-legislative act, its adoption was not subject to Read More
Ninth report on relocation and resettlement : Mystification and selective use of data in effort to present a dysfunctional approach as “sustainable” by Yasha Maccanico
Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos noted “progress” on both schemes although the challenge requires that “more needs to be done, and faster”, calling on member states to show “political will, commitment and perseverance”. As for the 8th previous report, isolating these two aspects enables the portrayal of a situation which is improving while turning attention away from its systemic effects in the frontline states and this approach’s limits in terms of rationality and sustainability. Read More
CZECH REPUBLIC: Court: Access to totalitarian archives data not to worsen
"The accessibility of archival sources from the totalitarian era will not worsen, but researchers must take into account the protection of delicate personal data if they publish them, the Czech Constitutional Court (US) ruled on Read More