Today’s rhetoric against the Roma is very similar to the one used by Nazis and fascists before the mass killings started in the thirties and forties. This is shameful and dangerous says the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe

The President of France who currently holds the revolving Presidency of the European Union discusses the conflict between Georgia and Russia and explores the role of European Union in resolving the dispute

The EU has spent the last few months navel-gazing; trying to figure out a way out of the bind it has found itself in after the Irish no vote on the Lisbon 'Reform' Treaty, and pondering how to re-engage its citizenry.

The Slovenian President discusses the role the UN and the European Union can play in the modern world, especially in promoting human rights and alleviating crises such as present rise in food prices.

Technological advances, particularly digitalisation, are driving convergence and have changed consumption patterns and all these are transforming European Media says Neelie Kroes as she discusses evolving role of the Broadcasting Commission.

The European Commission has put forth the communication on Green Public Procurement (GPP) to the EU Council and the European Parliament. Here, we present answers to some of the salient issues regarding GPP.

I've always believed that Britain's strength in the world needed engagement in Europe, not isolation. But yet I didn't feel comfortable dismissing the negative result out of hand said David Miliband in a recent speech as he discussed Europe.

Hate crimes are a daily reality all over the European continent. Credible recent reports show that people suffer violence because they are black, Jewish, Roma or Muslim or because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

By naming Sudan's president as a suspect for genocide over Darfur, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken his most dramatic step since the Court came into being six years ago. The author says Europe must support the ICC.

One of the crucial lessons we have learned is that terrorism should not be fought with methods violating human rights. Such means undermine precisely those values which we want to defend against the enemies of democracy. And they are not effective.