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Dissecting Europe's crucifix conflict

('euro topics',) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:47:35 -0000

On 3 November the European court of human rights ruled that crucifixes in classrooms violate the religious freedom of schoolchildren. Representatives from politics and the church roundly condemn the judgement, while many media welcome the decision. The Iberian, Maltese and Italian press react

Mobile European citizens are rejected by community law

('Marie Pepper',) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:15:00 -0000

Is Europe too inaccessible and not legally adapted to individual needs?

War criminal Karadzic wants a 'fair trial' at the Hague

('Mira Galanova',) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:35:03 -0000

During Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic's last appearance before the Hague at the end of August, judge Iain Bonomy resisted attempts to challenge the validity of the trial. Karadzic is to report ‘irregularities’ at a special hearing on 17 September

Greece, Portugal and Romania: save your species!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Is Europe acting fast enough to halt irreversible biodiversity loss?

Juliane Kokott: 'there's no macho atmosphere at the European Court of Justice'

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

The German mother-of-six, 50, is a woman of superlatives: as one of three women in an eight-man advocate general team at the ECJ, she most famously helped put Berlusconi on trial

It's not just rubbish in Naples

('Mary Maistrello',) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Campania drowns in tonnes of refuse. The EU threatens the intervention of the Court of Justice. How did we get this far, asks a young Neapolitan reporter

Online outlaws

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0000

10 million online gamblers, 2, 000 websites: the online gaming community is ever-expanding, becoming a huge phenomenon in Europe. But in legal speak, things are far from harmonised

Dangerous liaisons: Eastern populists meet Western democrats

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0000

In Serbia, Poland and Hungary, nationalists and populists are gaining ground. How have Western European democrats reacted in the past?

Pius Alibek: 'Saddam Hussein will not be executed'

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:18:00 -0000

The verdict of Saddam Hussein’s first trial, for the slaughter of 148 chiites in Dujail in 1982, is expected to be announced on November 5

Luxemburg: three languages, one nation

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:00:00 -0000

It is not easy to establish a national identity when foreigners make up 38% of a country’s population, especially when it is a country that has to sit between France and Germany. However, sometimes a small country can teach the European Union a wonderful lesson on integration.