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The Copenhagen District Court sentenced a Polish citizen to four months in prison and imposed on him an entry ban for six years for assaulting Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June, local media reported on Wednesday. In a verdict rendered by a unanimous jury, the Copenhagen District Court convicted the man for violence against [...]

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) issued a statement on Monday confirming several of its members were contacted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) embassies in their respective countries to “attempt to intimidate and dissuade them” from travelling to Taiwan for the upcoming annual summit held in Taipei, Taiwan. The statement noted that “ight [...]

The European Commission (EC or Commission) published the 2024 Rule of Law report, reporting a decline in democratic standards in Hungary, Italy, and Slovakia. The Commission’s annual rule of law report assesses the state of the rule of law across EU member states, focusing on areas such as judicial independence, anti-corruption efforts, media pluralism, and [...]

Slovakia’s national parliament backtracked on its controversial criminal code following concerns from the European Union, with 77 deputies voting in favor of new amendments on Tuesday. This change comes after Slovakia’s Constitutional Court deemed some of the most contested amendments to the criminal code constitutional. Slovakia’s Minister of Justice, Boris Susko, stated in a press [...]

Edited by: James Joseph | Managing Editor for Long-Form Content In some European Union nations, the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still a widespread and concerning practice that blatantly violates their fundamental rights and human dignity. The scope of forced sterilisation in the EU was discovered through a study carried out by the [...]

Slovakia’s parliament approved a contentious law to restructure the public broadcaster RTVS on Thursday, sparking concerns about the independence of public media in the country. Opposition MPs boycotted the vote, exiting the chamber in protest against the new legislation. The law in question targets Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS), which has served as Slovakia’s [...]

Employees of Slovakia’s public radio and television broadcaster, Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS), went on a three-hour walkout strike Monday to protest against government plans to overhaul the broadcasting service in a manner that they say allows the government to insert influence on news and other media content. Monday’s walkout, the first-ever strike by RTVS [...]

The Danish PM Mette Frederiksen was assaulted in the streets of Copenhagen on Friday, according to local media. The Copenhagen police announced on X that they had made an arrest relating to the “incident” involving the PM, which occurred in Copenhagen’s Kultorvet square. The police provided no further comments. Reactions from fellow EU officials supporting [...]

The alleged gunman implicated in the recent attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been formally charged with attempted premeditated murder, high-ranking officials said during a press conference on Thursday, during which they also described the attack as politically motivated. Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok described the attacker as a “lone wolf” and said [...]

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times on Wednesday, and remains in critical condition. In a statement to JURIST, the Slovak Government said: Today, during the government’s off-site meeting in Handlova, an assassination attempt was made on the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico. He is currently in critical condition and [...]