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…
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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…
Spain’s new equality law brings discrimination rules into everyday life
MADRID — A flat refused because of where you come from. A job interview that goes cold the moment religion enters the…
France redraws the rules for religious associations under new Republic principles law
PARIS — Religious associations in France woke up this week to a thicker rulebook. The law of 24 August 2021, published in…