Spanish judge probing CIA renditions orders intelligence documents declassified
A Spanish judge on Wednesday ordered the National Intelligence Center , Spain's state intelligence agency to declassify any documents it has about secret CIA extraordinary rendition flights . The order comes in Judge Ismael Moreno's investigation...
EU taking 'measured' approach to world death penalty abolition after UK balks
The European Union has agreed to adopt a "measured, step-by-step approach" to achieving a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty, according to German Minister of State Gunter Gloser, addressing the European Parliament on Wednesday. The...
EU court upholds antitrust fine against French telecommunications company
The European Union's Court of First Instance on Tuesday upheld a 10.35 million euro fine imposed on telecommunications operator France Telecom by the European Commission for violating EU antitrust rules...
European Commission wants to keep limits on US use of passenger data
The European Commission (EC) said Monday that it will seek to keep restrictions on the US government's use of EU airline passenger information in the new agreement being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and...
The German EU presidency said Monday that it would support EU anti-racism legislation that would impose maximum one to three-year terms of imprisonment for "ublic incitement to hatred and violence for reasons of racism or xenophobia," but...
Libya offers to release foreign medics convicted in AIDS trial if compensated
Libya is willing to release of five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children in exchange for compensation, Seif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Muhamar Gaddafi , told the...
The government of Norway has proposed new legislation that would allow embryonic stem cell research to potentially find cures for various diseases. Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services Silvia Brustad said...
An Italian draft law published Friday proposing prison sentences for race-based hate crimes but not making Holocaust denial an explicit crime in itself may complicate a German-initiated move to criminalize such Holocaust denial...
Report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners, European Parliament Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of...
Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos argued for an expanded European constitution in his opening statement at the Friends of the EU Constitution summit [press release, in Spanish; additional declaration...
