When religion becomes a barrier: discrimination appears in ordinary life across France
PARIS — Religious discrimination in France is not confined to the major public controversies or the high-profile arguments over laïcité. It can…
When religion becomes a barrier: discrimination appears in ordinary life across France
PARIS — Religious discrimination in France is not confined to the major public controversies or the high-profile arguments over laïcité. It can…
Europe strengthens its equality watchdogs — what can they actually do for victims?
BRUSSELS — The national bodies responsible for combating discrimination across the European Union are to receive stronger guarantees of independence, resources and…
Europe strengthens its equality watchdogs — what can they actually do for victims?
BRUSSELS — The national bodies responsible for combating discrimination across the European Union are to receive stronger guarantees of independence, resources and…
Europe approves a new migration and asylum system — but what changes at the border?
BRUSSELS — After years of negotiation, the European Parliament approved on Wednesday a package of ten legislative texts designed to reshape the…
France’s immigration law emerges from constitutional review in a substantially different form
PARIS — France’s contested immigration legislation has been promulgated, and it is not the law Parliament thought it was passing in December.…
Religious symbols at work: EU court defines the limits of public-sector neutrality
LUXEMBOURG — A public administration in the European Union may forbid its employees to wear visible religious or philosophical symbols in the…
Abayas, schools and laïcité: where France draws the line on religious expression
PARIS — France’s highest administrative court refused on Thursday to suspend the government’s prohibition on pupils wearing abaya-type garments in state schools,…
Spain puts non-discrimination directly into its new housing law
MADRID — Spain’s new housing law came into force on Friday, to a soundtrack of national argument about rents, supply and the…
Melilla border investigation turns attention from migration control to legal guarantees
MADRID — Nearly four months after the deaths at the border between Morocco and the Spanish city of Melilla, Spain’s Ombudsman has…