Now playing Next Spain Euroviews. We can't modernise the Constitution until we overcome Spain's problems The Catalan independence movement is just one of the many obstacles facing a push to modernise the Spanish Constitution. In order to make sure it serves the needs of all Spaniards today, we have to solve our long-standing problems first. 06/12/2018
Now playing Next Spain Euroviews. The Spanish Constitution at 40: is it still fit for purpose? | View Having sealed the transition from dictatorship to flourishing democracy, the Spanish Constitution has been glue holding Spain together for decades. As the country marks 40 years since it was adopted, does it continue to serve the Spanish people? 06/12/2018
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. Guy Verhofstadt: Europe à la carte is not on the menu | View Sooner rather than later [...] the EU must be able to prevent and correct breaches of Union values. We should create the powers to apply sanctions – if necessary including financial sanctions - that can act as effective deterrence. 29/11/2018
Now playing Next Poland Euroviews. After a 'tactical retreat' over judges - what next for Poland? | View The rulers [in Poland] do not behave as if they were meaningful constrained by law; whenever it does not suit their political purposes, they simply amend it. This is not a rule of law, this is rule by law. 22/11/2018
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. Spitzenkandidat or Autokratenkandidat? The Rot on Europe’s Right With Weber’s selection, the EPP’s Faustian bargain with Europe’s leading autocrat Orbán is sealed. 12/11/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. Brits want to leave Europe's party because the fun's over and we're all tired | View Brexit threatens what's left of Europe's washed-up and worn-out project - that's why it's ridiculed by the EU, writes former UK Labour Councillor Sam Stopp. 16/10/2018
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán - Conservatives fear criticising Hungary | View It is clear that at the highest levels of the Cabinet, Conservative politicians are worried about criticising Hungary in any way, because they want to secure favourable treatment in the Brexit negotiations, writes British Labour MEP Theresa Griffin. 02/10/2018
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. Tories back Hungary's Orbán: What do UK MEPs think? | View Euronews asks British members of the European Parliament to share their views on the recent vote on the rule of law in Hungary, in which the Tories were the only ruling conservative party in western Europe to oppose taking disciplinary action against Viktor Orbán's government. 01/10/2018
Now playing Next United Kingdom Euroviews. UK Tories' support for Orbán – Do Tories see democracy as a priority? It is important to note that the Tories sit in the European Parliament along with PiS, the Polish ruling party, who have taken very hostile actions against the independence of the judiciary in their country. These actions leave you wondering whether the Tories see democracy as a priority. 01/10/2018
Now playing Next Poland Euroviews. 7 Questions for the Art. 7 Hearing on the rule of law in Poland | View It should become clear /.../ that the continuing, systemic and vicious attacks on Polish courts and their judges are bound to produce consequences beyond Polish borders and constitute a clear and present danger to the EU legal system as a whole. This is no time for further dialogue or half measures. 17/09/2018
Now playing Next USA Euroviews. The US isn't close to becoming another Poland or Hungary - yet | View Professor Krugman is right to be concerned given President Trump's ongoing attacks on democratic norms in the US and the Republican party's complicity in those attacks, but I don't agree that we are close to becoming another Poland or Hungary. 13/09/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Euroviews. Fidesz's future, Article 7 - Two questions to Hungarian MEPs | View SZANYI: “I can only hope that finally the EPP leaders will prove to have sufficient political will, and leverage on Orbán to respect European values.” MOLNÁR: “I believe that the EPP should have launched the exclusion of Fidesz from its community a long time ago.” 10/09/2018
Now playing Next Europe News The Brief from Brussels - European Commission criticized over Selmayr appointment 04/09/2018
Now playing Next Nigeria Euroviews. Nigeria: Giving People A Voice Will Bring About Peace | View Nigerians have all the right in the world to question the authority and legitimacy of our nation’s current political leadership. 16/08/2018
Now playing Next Poland Euroviews. Poland's democracy is being boiled to death while the world watches Polish democracy is being subject to the boiling frog strategy via the adoption of unconstitutional legislation without, however, any risk for the ruling party as effective constitutional review has now been neutralised. 25/07/2018
Now playing Next Israel Israel passes controversial law affecting around 1.8 million Arabs A vote of 62-55 was passed after months of political argument, to declare only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country. This is something members of the Arab minority calls racist and verging on apartheid 19/07/2018
Now playing Next Poland Poland’s top judge turns up for work defying retirement order Malgorzata Gersdorf says she wants to ‘protect the rule of law’ against government reforms that critics including the EU say undermine judicial independence. 04/07/2018
Now playing Next Poland Euroviews. Europe, defend the rule of law in Poland! | View Open letter to the European Commission 18/06/2018
Now playing Next China Hundreds march in Hong Kong against one-party rule The march comes before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of hundreds - and possibly thousands - of students protesting against the repressive rule of China's communist party. 27/05/2018
Now playing Next Armenia Nikol Pashinyan calls an end to protests The leader of the protest movement that has rocked Armenia has called a pause in the campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister. 02/05/2018