Human rights

DOMINIK SCHLETT Europe’s future depends on the management of migration. While in Germany the public debate shifted in favour of extreme right wing demands, the campaign DARE2MOVE as a part of Act4FreeMovement program aims to support non-German EU-citizens living in Berlin to advocate for their free movement rights. Migration and social rights lawyer and governing […]

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom announced its decision to leave the EU. Two years after, #MarchForANewEurope was organised in Berlin, where around one thousand people took to the streets during the demonstration. The march was simultaneously held in Cologne, Munich, Copenhagen and Brussels. “For nationalists and populists, it’s become a day of celebration. […]

„Pod Save Austria” Addresses on the State of the Nation(s) In dependence of the French intellectual Julien Benda, who had imagined a speech to the European nation from within the uprising fascism, Ulrike Guérot addresses european citizens today with an appeal to complement the one market and the one currency by one common european Democracy. […]

Hungary voted the bill that introduces a new category of crime: illicit assistance for immigration. Is helping asylum-seekers illegal now? Read the interview with Szilárd István Pap.

An EU27 that doesn’t focus on more equality, more opportunities and more solidarity for its citizens, is an EU that risks repeating the same mistakes again that led to a decade of austerity and a vote to leave by one of its Member States. The Commission needs to understand this if it is to play the leading role that Juncker envisions.

Recent acts of dissent within Moria have met with harsh police violence, and few positive outcomes. So the Afghan protesters left the camp, thrusting the continued struggle of detained refugees into the laps of the cocktail-sipping yacht-owners around the harbour. Facing down threats of eviction and arrest, and violent abuse from an off-duty Moria guard, […]

Saša Uhlová’s investigative project explores workplace conditions in the worst-paid jobs in Czech Republic

School prepares you for life, they say. If that’s true, we’re in deep trouble, for after devouring public education, the Hungarian Fidesz-KDNP government swallowed the entire schoolbook market for dessert.

Growing numbers of Chinese people are fleeing the country, in the face of religious persecution. In Europe, they hope to find refuge.

According to Czech left-wing parties, a strong state does not mean the redistribution of wealth towards the poor – it means respecting the authorities and having a rather flexible approach to human rights.