EU: Lackluster Commitment to Rights Protection

Email European Union leaders during 2014 were too often willing to sideline human rights at home when expedient in a year marked by success for populist and Eurosceptic parties in European Parliament elections and beyond, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2015. It highlights developments in 10 EU member states, EU human rights foreign policy, and Union-wide developments on migration and asylum, discrimination and intolerance, and counterterrorism. (Brussels) - European Union leaders during 2014 were too often willing to sideline human rights at home when expedient in a year…

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