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Finnish Christian Politician Facing Charges for ‘Discriminatory Hate Speech'
May 10, 2021
Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Democrat MP, is facing charges of 'discriminatory hate speech' in her home country of Finland for stating her belief that homosexual activity is sinful according to the Bible.
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EU: Poland's Disciplining of Judges against EU Law
May 10, 2021
Believing that the independence and the impartiality of Poland's Disciplinary Chamber cannot be guaranteed, the European Commission has brought a complaint to the Court of Justice, asserting that Poland's way of disciplining judges is contrary to EU law.
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ECtHR Intervenes over Polish Tribunal
May 10, 2021
AP reports that in what some regard as a controversial move, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said that Poland’s top court violated a local company’s right to fair trial due to an irregularly appointed judge.
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French Politician Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Hate Speech Trial
May 05, 2021
A court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre found that former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen did not break hate speech laws by publishing gruesome images of Islamist atrocities on Twitter to prove the comparison of her party, National Rally, to IS, was absurd.
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Top German Court Rules Climate Law Partly ‘Unconstitutional’
May 04, 2021
Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled that the country’s 2019 climate protection law, which sets out to cut emissions to net-zero by 2050, was partly “unconstitutional” citing that “sufficient measures for further emission reductions after 2031 are missing,” putting an improper burden on future generations after 2030.
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