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Italy
Where truth is never clear-cut

The Amanda Knox case highlights one of the many failings of the Italian court system – it never delivers door-slamming certainty.

6 October 2011
The Guardian London
Austria
A haven of corruption

"Give and take: the corrupt republic," headlines Die Presse in its report on "the wave of corruption scandals that has rocked the country." According to […]

31 August 2011

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Presseurop
Die Presse
France
Strauss-Kahn 'free to leave'

"DSK case dismissed," headlines Aujourd'hui, following news that the New York State district attorney, Cyrus Vance, has informed Nafissatou Diallo "that charges against her alleged […]

23 August 2011

Presseurop
Aujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien
Bulgaria
Sofia gets another earful from Brussels

“Changes have had no impact,” headlines Dnevnik. Once again, the European Commission’s annual report on progress in judicial reform, and the fight against corruption and […]

20 July 2011

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Presseurop
Dnevnik
Lithuania-Austria
Release of KGB officer creates chill

There is a chill in relations between Vilnius and Vienna. “Lithuania demands a sentence,” says Lithuanian daily Vilniaus diena concerning Mikhail Golovatov, a former KGB […]

19 July 2011

Presseurop
Vilniaus diena
Netherlands
Dutch state liable for Srebrenica deaths

“The Court [of Appeal of The Hague] has handed down a historic decision” and has left “the state in disarray” by finding it responsible for […]

6 July 2011

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Presseurop
Trouw
France
DSK: the saga continues

"DSK back" is Libération's headline. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF, was freed on July 1 after doubts came to light […]

4 July 2011

2

Presseurop
Libération
Serbia-Netherlands
Mladić transferred to The Hague

"Mladić transferred to The Hague," headlines Nezavisne Novine, following the extradition of the Bosnian-Serb former military leader from Belgrade to the Netherlands. According to the […]

1 June 2011

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Presseurop
Nezavisne Novine
Demjanjuk trial
Butcher of Sobibor sentenced and released

A year and a half after the start of the trial of John Demjanjuk in Munich, the former guard at the Sobibor concentration […]

13 May 2011

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Presseurop
Trouw
Germany
"Security retention" is outlawed

Seldom has the Süddeutsche Zeitung welcomed with such enthusiasm a decision by the German Constitutional Court: "Security retention is unconstitutional," exults the Munich daily. On […]

5 May 2011

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Presseurop
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Immigration
Italy taken to task for imprisoning aliens

The "European Court of Justice rules that illegal immigration is not a crime," headlines La Repubblica. In its judgement on an appeal filed by Algerian […]

29 April 2011

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Presseurop
La Repubblica
Spain
Judge Garzón gets judged

Baltazar Garzón “will be tried for the 'Gürtel affair' before the corruption trials themselves,” leads the Spanish daily El País, following the decision by the […]

12 April 2011

Presseurop
El País
Italy
Berlusconi launches “his” justice reform

With a large bandage on his face following surgery to his jaw, the head of the Italian government Silvio Berlusconi has, in a “resumption […]

11 March 2011

Presseurop
La Stampa
Belarus
International campaign against Lukaschenko

“Lukashenko: the dictator in the dock,” headlines the Independent, leading for the second day running on the Belarus strongman. With hundreds known to have been […]

9 March 2011

Presseurop
The Independent
Romania
Bucharest walks in step with ECHR

Bucharest has decided to fall into step behind the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). On 23 February, the Romanian parliament adopted a […]

24 February 2011

Presseurop
Jurnalul Naţional
UNITED KINGDOM
MPs kick out ECHR ruling on prisoners

“Day we stood up to Europe,” headlines the Daily Mail, after British MPs “defied” a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that prisoners […]

11 February 2011

Presseurop
The Daily Mail
France
Judges strike against Sarkozy

"The judges’ revolt spreads across France," leads Le Monde on the eve of an unprecedented national mobilisation. About fifty out of 179 High Courts have […]

9 February 2011

Presseurop
Le Monde
Germany
Sentences served, but still in jail

"The judge: murderers have rights too." The German Constitutional Court has begun to assess complaints filed by four inmates remaining in secure detention […]

8 February 2011

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
Human rights
The EU’s conscience

Although the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has on occasion been criticised by national administrations, Professor of European Law at Leiden University Rick Lawson argues that it remains an indispensable institution for the EU.

31 January 2011

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NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
Poland
Speed video trials for football hooligans

“Videoconferencing with hooligans 2012”, leads Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, referring to a new bill drawn up by the Ministry of Justice ahead of the Euro 2012 […]

17 January 2011

Presseurop
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Portugal
Scandal splatters Barroso

“The European Commission, presided over by José Manuel Barroso, must decide if it wants to launch an investigation against the former [Portuguese] government of its […]

21 December 2010

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Presseurop
i
WikiLeaks
Assange case tests Europe's justice system

The arrest of the WikiLeaks’ founder in London on the basis of a warrant issued by Swedish authorities will serve as a test of new cross-border procedures to fight crime in the EU. But do these procedures do enough to safeguard citizens’ rights?

9 December 2010
Dagens Nyheter Stockholm
Euro
Why criminals love the €500 note

The 500 euro note is a runaway success. Smugglers and money-launderers much prefer it to the dollar, making it the underworld's currency of choice.

16 August 2010

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La Vanguardia Barcelona
Austria
Austrian justice neutralised by corruption

The revelation of the hidden financial holdings of former right-wing populist leader, the late Jörg Haider, has brought to light the extent of corruption in […]

13 August 2010

Presseurop
Falter
Czech Republic
Underworld's "last Mohican" behind bars

"Pitr arrested" trumpets Hospodářské noviny. On the run for several years, the businessman who is seen as "the living symbol of the ties between the […]

29 July 2010

Presseurop
Hospodářské noviny
Netherlands
State must help children of migrants

"The State must assume responsibility for the children of illegals", writes Trouw the day after a verdict was handed down by the Dutch Court of […]

28 July 2010

Presseurop
Trouw
Religion
Italy leads battle for the Holy Cross

The European Court of Human Rights has begun debating Italy's appeal against its ruling that the display of crucifixes in public places constitutes "a violation of religious […]

1 July 2010

Presseurop
La Stampa
Northern Ireland
Official apology for Bloody Sunday

The much awaited report into the deaths of 14 innocent people shot dead by the British Army on Bloody Sunday was greeted by scenes of […]

16 June 2010

Presseurop
The Belfast Telegraph
Romania
Scrapped anti-corruption body too effective

"ANI has been scrapped" reports Revista 22. The National Integrity Agency (ANI), an organisation with a brief to fight corruption in Romanian politics has been sentenced to […]

21 April 2010

Presseurop
Revista 22
European of the week
Baltasar Garzón, judge in the dock

Famous for having prosecuted Pinochet, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón is facing trial at the Supreme Court of having committed abuses of power while investigating crimes committed under Francoism. Is he a hero or an megalomaniac? wonders El País.

9 April 2010

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El País Madrid
Serbia
Apologies with a bitter aftertaste

"The Serb parliament on 31 March adopted a resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre, in which close to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb […]

1 April 2010

Presseurop
Timpul
Romania
Bucharest, mafia haven

Wanted for over 20 years by the Italian police, Sicilian Mafioso Giuseppe Scuderi (44) was finally apprehended on 16 March – in Bucharest. Scuderi, whom […]

17 March 2010

Presseurop
Adevărul
Trade
EU hands Palestinians a legal victory

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that products originating from the Israeli-occupied territories may no longer benefit from custom duties exemptions granted to […]

26 February 2010

Presseurop
Le Soir
Turkey
European justice is Turkish delight

Violations of freedom of religion, equality before the law, human rights: a great many Turks bypass their own legal system to put their case directly to the European Court of Human Rights. A phenomenon that vexes jurists no end, but is gradually changing the Turkish mindset.

19 February 2010

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Trouw Amsterdam
EU-US
MEPs swat Swift

"It just squeaked by," sighs Tagenszeitung, which doesn't hide its pleasure after the European Parliament's February 11th vote to reject "spying on bank transfers" by […]

12 February 2010

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
Romania
Producer orders Sicilian style killings

Victims buried alive, corpses thrown in the Danube… this weekend's Romanian press looks back at a string of four murders perpetrated in mafioso – or […]

18 January 2010

Presseurop
Evenimentul zilei
Netherlands
Snitch on sexual tourists online

"Imagine you are on holiday in a faraway country and you see a fellow tourist taking local children back to his hotel room? What can […]

14 January 2010

Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Italy
Knox a victim of "la bella figura"?

Guilty as charged? The case against Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of the killing of her English flatmate Meredith Kercher in the Italian city […]

10 December 2009

Presseurop
The Guardian
Terrorism
A Jackal for a nuclear power station

Paris is apparently prepared to hand over Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as “Carlos”, to the authorities in Venezuela, where he was born 60 years […]

3 December 2009

Presseurop
Lidové noviny
Germany
Chaotic opening to Demjanjuk trial

In what is probably the last great Holocaust trial to be held in Germany, John Demjanjuk, a former guard at the Sobibor Nazi death camp […]

1 December 2009

Presseurop
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Portugal
Nothing to report on DNA register

In early 2008, the Portuguese government launched a DNA register to stock the profiles of thieves, murderers and sex offenders sentenced to more than three […]

17 November 2009

Presseurop
Diário de Notícias
Germany
No country for Islamophobes

On 11 November, the criminal court in Dresden found Alex Wiens guilty of murder, and ruled that he should serve the maximum possible sentence of […]

12 November 2009

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
International Justice
Charles Taylor – Trial and non-tribulations

The examination of Charles Taylor by the Sierra Leone Special Court (SLSC) begins today – on the premises of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in […]

10 November 2009

Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Belgium
Jails miss well behaved offenders

"Prisons marked by daily violence," headlines De Morgen. Overcrowding is one cause, but trade unions also believe that the increase in violence in Belgian prisons is […]

2 November 2009

Presseurop
De Morgen
Immigration
Rescuing boat people is no crime

It is not a crime to save human life. The sheer obviousness of the conclusion drawn on 7 October by a court in Agrigente, Sicily, […]

8 October 2009

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
France
Magistrates, an endangered species

A report on the reform of French criminal law procedure, presented on 1 September to president Nicolas Sarkozy, recommends doing away with the examining magistracy […]

2 September 2009

Presseurop
Libération
Russia
Beslan victims turn to Europe

"Five years after the dramatic hostage taking in Beslan, victims' families are still waiting on aid promised by the Russian state," reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. On […]

1 September 2009

Presseurop
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Belgium
Belgian judiciary scandal 'hushed up'

In Brussels, the affair is considered to be such a serious threat to Belgium's justice system that it has already been compared with the case […]

14 August 2009

Presseurop
La Libre Belgique
Czech Republic
Arsonists arrested, national honour restored

Police investigating a racist attack against a Roma family in Vítkov, in the eastern Czech Republic, have arrested 12 suspects. The nine men and three […]

14 August 2009

Presseurop
Lidové noviny
Austria
Court stands accused!

Leading with the front-page headline "Scandalous political corruption of justice," Kleine Zeitung reports on a court decision in July to close the "case of the moving signs" […]

13 August 2009

Presseurop
Kleine Zeitung