#Law

EU: anticorruption rules enforced. McGrath, “this is about protecting the integrity of our democracies”

Online bullying: “They killed my Coco”. Jackie Fox’s appeal for a European law

In 2018, after three years of torment, threats, physical violence and cyberbullying, Nicole “Coco” Fox took her own life. Since…

Laura Santi. Marina Casini: “I prayed for her, but ‘solidarity’ in the form of assisted suicide is a defeat”

The journalist suffering from multiple sclerosis who died on July 21 via assisted suicide is remembered fondly and with deepest…

Artificial intelligence: international convention based on “human approach”

The Council of Europe’s “Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law” was opened…

A divided country. Bishop Pasotto (Tbilisi): “No to provocations, this is not a time for confrontation but for unity”

The renewed parliamentary debate on the bill on ‘foreign interference’, dubbed as the “Foreign Agent” law, proposed by the ruling…

Hungary: Venice Commission on the Act on the Protection of National Sovereignty, “risks for democracy”

Immigration Decree: identifying shared solutions respectful of human rights

Yesterday Italy’s Council of Ministers discussed yet another regulation, this time concerning 16-year-old migrants arriving into the country. It provides…

Surrogacy. Armeni: “Not freedom but exploitation”

Forget freedom of choice and altruism. For journalist and writer Ritanna Armeni, surrogacy is an unacceptable form of exploitation of…

Surrogacy. Lulli (gynaecologist): “A deep bond is formed between the (surrogate) mother and the child. No more silence”

“We have broken the most sacred bond in human history: the bond between mother and child,” says gynaecologist Emanuela Lulli.…

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs: Cannabis Report. General trend is to reduce prison penalties

Fafce: Bassi (President) about a EU legislative initiative, “a child is a gift, and parenthood is a responsibility”