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Slovenia announced temporary border controls with Croatia and Hungary on Saturday, citing increased security concerns, as reported by Slovenia’s state media organization STA. The border controls are set to be in effect for at least 10 days. The measure follows Italy’s decision to do the same at its border with Slovenia. The Slovenian government cited [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that the Italian government breached its human rights obligations by failing to address a garbage and pollution problem linked to increased mortality and cancer rates in Italy’s Campania region. The case was brought by 19 Italians who alleged that the government breached its human rights obligations by [...]

Multiple human rights experts expressed concern on Thursday against measures Europe has used to silence climate activists. including mass arrests, long sentences and new laws that restrict the right to protest. Many countries in Europe, such as Germany, France and Italy, have issued multiple crackdowns on protest groups, including giving the police more powers to [...]

On October 7th, 2023, the State of Israel was brutally attacked by the terrorist organization known as Hamas, instigating an all-out war. In the early morning of October 7th, Hamas terrorist fighters made their way into Israel from the Gaza Strip, invading and occupying Israeli towns, cities, and military bases. This surprise attack in Israel [...]

In a nearly five-hour long hearing on Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard a landmark case brought by six youth plaintiffs against 33 European governments to spur stronger climate change mitigation measures. Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others featured six plaintiffs from Portugal: Catarina, 23, Cláudia, 24, Martim, 20, [...]

Editor’s note on historical context: On Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement with Germany, France and Italy, which allowed Berlin to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Upon his return, Chamberlain said of the agreement: “…for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from [...]

The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi released a decree on Friday stating that asylum seekers will need to pay $5,259 (€4,938) to avoid being held at a detention center while their applications are reviewed. The decree called this plan a method of providing a financial guarantee to have the right to enter into Italy as [...]

The Slovakian foreign ministry announced on Thursday that it had expelled a Russian diplomat suspected of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which delineates the rights and responsibilities of diplomats. In a press release, the Slovakian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote that the diplomat’s actions were “thoroughly documented by the competent authorities of the [...]

The the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea’s public hearings concerning international obligations to mitigate marine pollution started Monday in Hamburg, Germany following a request from the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). Prime Ministers Kausea Natano of Tuvalu and Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, representing COSIS, are [...]

In the 1930s, Europe watched through a haze of perplexity and inertia as Germany built a military structure practically unrivaled in human history. France and England, although threatened by the German war machine, chose the path of passivity and the belief that the worst could be avoided through diplomacy — even as the signs indicated [...]