Law and justice
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United Kingdom: Can’t gag the gagging orders debate
25 May 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Italy: New law made to measure for Berlusconi
31 March 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Editorial: Respect for the ref
11 February 201123Presseurop -
Iran: Diplomatic crisis after Dutch citizen executed
31 January 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Personal data: Secret Portugal–US agreement exposed
17 January 2011PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Institutions: The long arm of the Council of Europe
29 June 2010191 The Guardian London -
Serbia: Apologies with a bitter aftertaste
1 April 2010PresseuropTimpul -
Czech Republic: Eco-racketeering, a business with a future
25 January 2010962 Lidové noviny Prague -
Netherlands: Lunatic fringe Islam to defend Wilders
21 January 2010PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Press Freedom: Libel, a rich man's game
4 January 2010191 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Iraq War: Chilcot inquiry accused of whitewash
24 November 2009PresseuropThe Guardian -
EU enlargement: Auditors find "black hole" of the Balkans
14 October 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Justice: Romania's stressed out judges to strike
31 August 2009PresseuropCotidianul -
United Kingdom: Furore over Lockerbie bomber release
21 August 2009PresseuropThe Herald -
Justice: July prison break accomplice behind bars
12 August 2009PresseuropDe Morgen -
Ireland: Guns of Limerick
5 August 2009Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt
On issues such as burqa bans, same sex marriages and human rights, the Council of Europe is making its presence increasingly felt. But this hitherto inconspicuous organisation, frequently confused with the EU, has an image problem. 
The arrest of an environmental activist who demanded money to withdraw his opposition to real estate projects has lifted the veil on a new type of blackmail, which writer Ivan Brezina maintains pales in comparison with the stock and trade of major public figures in the environmental movement. 
UK courts harry the press more than almost anywhere else in the Western world. Big business and wily avengers avail themselves of ruthless lawyers, multi-million-pound lawsuits and nonsensical laws to stifle “bad press” – and not only in the English papers. A Spiegel report. 
In western Ireland, bloody feuding between rival drug gangs has instilled a climate of fear in the region. To deal with it, the government has drafted emergency legislation. But some judges and lawyers criticise the new laws as unconstitutional.