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The suicide rate among people in pretrial custody is double that of convicted prisoners

By , , , , , |2023-05-11T10:29:37+01:00May 17th, 2022|Tags: , , |

In Europe there were 17.5 suicides per 10,000 people in pretrial detention in 2021, while the proportion was 8.54 deaths in the rest of the prison population.

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One in five people in EU prisons are in pretrial detention

By , , , , , , , , , |2023-04-04T03:17:13+01:00May 10th, 2022|Tags: , , |

People waiting for a final sentence often suffer worse conditions than convicted prisoners, even if they're innocent.

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Is the EU’s asylum system ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees?

By , , , , |2023-05-09T11:27:13+01:00April 4th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Ukrainian refugees now enter the EU under the aegis of the ultra-fast special protection system, but regular reception centres across the Union are piling up hundreds of thousands of applications and rejecting many. EU members states' asylum systems average more than 15 months of delay. 

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The postcode lottery of publicly-funded assisted reproduction in Spain

By , , , , , |2023-04-04T02:50:28+01:00November 29th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Many autonomous communities are not providing the bare minimum of provision in Spain’s health service and are using stripped back services, age limits and imposing fees in order to avoid providing the service.

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Half of all MEPs do not disclose any meeting with lobbies

By , , |2023-04-04T02:37:44+01:00May 24th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Regulation of the European Parliament is highly voluntary. Compared to 90 percent of Swedish, Danish or Finnish MEPs who disclose meetings with interest groups, only one out of ten Greek, Polish and Bulgarian MEPs do so.

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Meetings on public health between European Commission and lobbies have been booming

By , , |2023-04-04T02:37:19+01:00May 24th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Meetings with dozens of assistants and thousands of civil servants fly under the radar of the EU's transparency register. The heads of the pharmaceutical industry, EFPIA is one of the most active lobby groups. In less than a year and a half since the start of the pandemic they have held as many meetings with senior Commission officials as in the last five years.

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Europe gets back to business

By , , , |2023-04-04T01:02:16+01:00June 9th, 2020|Tags: , , |

Lisbon and Stockholm have opted for opposing mobility models – with and without restrictions. However the epidemic's impact on their borders has not been in line with their neighbours, but rather, like those at the other side of the European continent.

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