In a report following a January 2025 visit, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has highlighted persistent and severe shortcomings within the Greek prison system, while acknowledging recent government efforts to initiate reform.
Greek prisons...
Greece has secured formal approval from the Council of the European Union to participate in the SAFE (Security Action for Europe) defense loan instrument, gaining access to long term EU backed financing for military and security programs.
EU finance ministers...
Countries around the world, including members of the European Union, the United States, Britain, and Israel, have begun signing the first AI standards agreement. Known as the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, the treaty is the first legally binding...
Serbia's representative slammed Greece's rapporteur at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) for recommending that Kosovo be admitted to the European human rights body.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) overwhelmingly passed a report...
The Council of Europe, the continent's human rights body, has criticized Greece for criminalizing NGOs and individuals assisting refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants.
As the trial of a Syrian refugee and competitive swimmer whose story inspired the Netflix film The...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared 10 foreign ambassadors - including seven from Europe - as persona non grata after they called for the release of Osman Kavala.
Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist, was jailed in 2017 despite having not...
A committee report by the Council of Europe released on Thursday urges the Greek authorities to change their approach towards immigration detention and to ensure that migrants deprived of their liberty are treated with dignity and humanity.
The report of...
Stelios Kerasidis, the seven-year-old Greek pianist and composer who has stunned the globe with his talent, dazzled the crowd gathered on Wednesday at an event inaugurating Greece’s presidency of the Council of Europe at the Temple of Olympian Zeus...
