By Alessandro Valera  Demonstrations, occupations and other forms of protest have sprung up around the continent in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ireland, each contesting their government’s attempts to further slash education budgets and increase tuition…

“Everyone has the right to engage in work and to pursue a freely chosen or accepted occupation. Every citizen of the Union has the freedom to seek employment, to work, to exercise the right of establishment and to provide services…

Article by: Alexandra Solom Translated by: Deirdre Brophy Helène Flautre: MEP and member of the Greens – European Free Alliance, is a specialist on the issue of the defence of human rights. She gave her opinion on the Tunisian crisis…

Franziska Brantner is an MEP in the Greens-EFA Grouping, and is a member of the Foreign affairs and relations with Isreal committees. She took part in the negotiations on the formation of the European External Action Service on behalf of…

By: Valeria Venturini Nowadays seems to be fair enough that words such as freedom, democracy, development, have become bare containers full of rhetoric with no meaning. Too often we hear examples of good or bad governance based more on economical concepts instead…

On Tuesday 23 November, the European Parliament in Strasbourg has approved a report on “Civil, commercial, family and private international law” which confirms the necessity for any civil contract (including all forms of marriages and civil unions) to be fully…