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Gangs, drugs, sex and violence - the pressures on young people
Despite the overall drop in UK crime rates, the British youth in inner city neighbourhoods still have to live within a landscape of violence, drugs and sexual harassment – writes Dr Jenny ParkesEurope's prisons at breaking point due to overcrowding
Rising costs, overcrowded cells and limited use of non-custodial measures mean penal institutions are struggling to cope with the pressure on resources at a time of austerity – the Council of Europe has warned
Economic crisis hits press freedom in Europe
The economic crisis in the EU saw the development of an 'increasingly hostile' environment for journalists in Greece and led to a wider sense that the media could not fulfil its vital role in holding authority to account, a report says
Asylum seeker database plan shows EU's hypocrisy on human rights
Plans to routinely share EURODAC data – including finger prints – with police is a 'breach of EU law' but the proposal is a fait accompli – say Ska Keller MEPTerror attacks in Europe increased in 2012
There was an increase in the number of terrorist attacks in the EU in 2012, according to the EU's law enforcement agency, reversing a previous trend of decline since 2007The EU: still united in diversity
Despite having relatively little in common, the disparate members of the EU and the eurozone have created a union of democracy and peace – a fact that sceptics should take more notice of, says our secret columnist in BrusselsFears of migrant influx to the UK are 'overblown'
Romanians and Bulgarians have already moved to the 15 countries that opened their labour markets at an earlier stage so British politicians are wrong to scaremonger about a new influx of migrants, says Alex Lazarowicz-
Hungary has 'criminalised' homelessness in cleansing exercise
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The rise of UKIP 'makes Britain a more European place'
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UKIP is 'a political scam' - says controversial MEP
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Entrepreneurs in Europe need a rebrand
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EU economic warnings target Spain and Slovenia
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The argument against 'open door' immigration from UKIP
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EU failing to tackle Hungary's constitutional missteps
Should an independent cost-benefits study into Britain's membership of the EU be commissioned to elevate the 'in/out' debate above scaremongering?
Is the criticism of Catherine Ashton fair given that the European External Action Service has been denuded of power by the institutional turf wars in Brussels?
yes
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no
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