Several members of Armenia’s judiciary, including high-profile judges, have submitted their resignations following calls from the country’s prime minister...
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The Council of Europe (CoE) has praised the reforms implemented by Ukrainian governments between 2014 and 2018, claiming that results show a “positive trend” in...
In its new report on Romania, the Council of Europe’s Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) notes some progress in the last five years, but expresses concern...
Ukraine’s foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin has announced that his country will pull out of the Minsk Agreements, the peace accords seeking to enforce a ceasefire in...
Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko has said that he wants to develop the country’s local governance structure and has “instructed” the Belarusian parliament to...
The Council of Europe’s special representative for migration and refugees Tomáš Boček has called on member states to improve their integration policies. In a...
Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has told the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly (PACE) that the country is now unequivocally democratic...
In an unprecedented joint statement, the ambassadors from 12 key Romanian allies and partners have called on the country’s government not to pass any new emergency...
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has, in an unprecedented move, publicly declared Belarus non-compliant with its anti-corruption...
The Venice Commission has raised concerns over Hungary’s decision in December 2018 to create a system of administrative courts with their own high court and...
Romania should improve the implementation of laws and ensure funding to effectively protect the rights of persons with disabilities and protect women from violence, a...
The Hungarian Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by the Hungarian branch of human rights watchdog Amnesty International to scrap a controversial refugee law...
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has said that Hungary faces many interconnected human rights challenges. “The space for the work of...
