Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’ Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical prompts The Guardian - UK · Jul 21
Media freedom ‘under sustained attack’ across EU as public trust drops, report finds Journalists face rising threats while media ownership is concentrated in fewer hands, leading civil liberties group warns The Guardian - UK · Apr 28
‘Raise our heads and resist’: how Europe’s civil society is fighting back against the far right Rightwing parties are using parliamentary queries, legal traps and policing to target NGOs and stifle dissent The Guardian - UK · Apr 1
Can Europe’s public service media survive attacks by the far right? From Italy to France, Germany to Hungary, nationalist governments and politicians are targeting media with the same playbook The Guardian - UK · Mar 31
‘Assault on justice’: how far-right attacks are threatening rule of law in Europe Judicial independence is under threat as populist politicians target judges and authoritarian governments attempt constitutional reforms The Guardian - UK · Mar 30
Five EU governments found to ‘consistently’ dismantle rule of law Exclusive: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia actively pursue regressive policies, watchdog finds The Guardian - UK · Mar 30
Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says Civil liberties report warns that Italy along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia intentionally undermining rule of law ‘in nearly all aspects’ The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025
European audit of democracy standards too positive, says human rights watchdog European Commission report ‘completely ineffective as an enforcement tool’, according to civil liberties organisation The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024
Literary Subfields, Ecocriticism, and the Eclipse of the Humanities Len Gutkin in Liberties on the decline of the humanities. Reason · May 6, 2024
Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries Civil liberties network warns of decline across the bloc as a result of harm or neglect by governments The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2024
Rule of law declining across EU, report warns Civil liberties network says in states where far-right parties influence power, rule-of-law deterioration risks becoming systemic The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024