Podcast: Is Europe miseducating its youth?

Schools experts from Ireland and Finland, join an Italian undergraduate student, a parent of Korean origin, a think-tank education specialist from London’s Policy Exchange and the Council of Europe’s leading educationalist Josef Huber, to provide answers to some of the key questions driving educational reform across the region.

Court tells Ukraine: Yuliya Tymoshenko must have adequate medical treatment

Under Rule 39, the European Court of Human Rights decided on 15 March to indicate to the Ukrainian government that it should ensure that former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko receives adequate medical treatment in an appropriate institution.

Platini: “We must end organised cheating”

At the 12th Conference of Ministers responsible for sports, UEFA president Michel Platini said: “Match fixing is an offence against public order. It cannot be resolved using the resources of sports bodies alone.”

Judgement on French gay adoption appeal

Human rights judges have upheld a decision by French authorities to refuse a woman’s application to adopt her female partner’s child.

Video: Why the European Court rejected UK police “kettling” complaint

European Court lawyer Clare Ovey gives the background to the judgement earlier today that police “kettling” of a London anti-globalisation protest did not breach human rights laws.