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EU’s support for Ukraine backed by three-quarters of Europeans

By |January 19th, 2023|Tags: , , |

After almost a year of war with Russia, EU citizens still predominantly support Ukraine and the EU’s approach to the crisis. Despite the political, social, and economic costs, EU citizens stand firm behind democracy and appear willing to make sacrifices for it.

Serbia, algorithmic discrimination rehearsals

By |December 14th, 2022|Tags: , , |

A new law on social services in Serbia provides for the collection of a large amount of personal data of beneficiaries, to be analysed with an algorithm that evaluates their socio-economic condition. The declared goal is to improve the distribution of resources, but over 22,000 people have already lost the subsidy, without knowing why.

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

By , , , , , |May 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.

Europe is spending billions to fight immigration: to what end?

By |May 11th, 2022|Tags: , |

Launched in November 2015, the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) was intended to promote stability and fight against “the root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons”. Five billion euros have been approved for 250 projects in 26 African countries. But what results has the fund produced?  

Digital Fortress Europe #3: Automation and surveillance in Fortress Europe

By , , |May 2nd, 2022|Tags: , , |

Artificial intelligence and algorithms are at the heart of the EU’s new mobility-control system. High-risk automated decisions are being taken on human lives. It is an emerging multi-billion-euro unregulated market with dystopian 'smart' applications.

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