Croatia is a unitary and indivisible democratic and welfare state (Article 1 of the Constitution). The Croatian legal system is a civil law system, and the government is organised according to the principle of the separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches, but is...

The national legal system of the Republic of North Macedonia, one of the successors of the Yugoslav legal system, is a continental, civil-law system in a unitary semi-parliamentarian republic. According to the Constitution, there are three branches of government in place: the legislature (the...

Due to several factors, which include the low level of legal awareness in Polish society, people's passivity (and sometimes fear) around seeking to uphold their rights and a lack of systematic research, it is impossible to assess the real scale of discrimination in Poland. Research commissioned...

Spain has two law-making levels: the State and the Autonomous Communities. Spain recognises certain legislative autonomy in its Autonomous Communities for the execution of legislation but anti-discrimination legislation is an exclusive task of the State. According to Article 81 of the Spanish...

The Republic of Serbia is a constitutional multi-party parliamentary democracy. The multi-party National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia was established in 1991. The 11th legislature commenced its work on 3 June 2016 and is notable for the fact that the leading party has a majority in the...

history is that of a federal unit within a federal state - the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). After the dissolution of the SFRY in the 1990s, it was again structured as a federal state with two federal units, and known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). From 2003 to...

The ruling FIDESZ-KDNP right-wing permanent party alliance (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége - Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt: Alliance of Young Democrats - Christian Democratic People's Party) has structurally reorganised the Hungarian state organisation and fundamentally modified the Hungarian...

France has a long-standing tradition of legislating in favour of gender equality in the domain of employment and professional life. The principle of equality between men and women was first recognized in 1946 in the Preamble to the French Constitution. The law of 11 February 1950 first regulated...