EU states appear likely to agree this week on three of the seven EU asylum reform laws proposed by the European Commission in the summer of 2016. A senior Commission official on 18 June said provisional agreements had...

"The 10th attempt to pass an ideological bill crying out 'ours first' has failed to pass the test of constitutionality," ASGI said in response to the recent decision in a case concerning access to public and social...

The Legal Affairs Committee members ignored the emails of over 30,000 EU citizens and pushed ahead with a regulation that could change the internet as we know it.

CIVICUS Monitor update on Spain - June 2018

“What we can see here is that instead of taking into account the citizens’ interests and fundamental rights, it just seems that the Copyright Directive is more likely based on commitments towards big companies that...

"I'm going to do everything possible to see that these razor wire fences at Ceuta and Melilla are removed," said Spain's interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. The fences separate Morocco from the Spanish...

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has asked Hungary’s government not to adopt legislation designed to curtail the activities of NGOs deemed to be supporting illegal immigration prior to the release of its...

We too often forget that juveniles in youth detention centers are common, everyday people, and not the “bad guys” they are so often portrayed as.

The migrant rescue ship that last week rescued 629 people docked in Valencia on 17 June, bringing an end to a standoff that laid bare tensions between EU member states about immigration. Italy's new far-right...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s former lawyer, Fidesz MP Istvan Bajkai, wants to amend the Constitution to ban homeless people from living and sleeping in public spaces in Hungary. He told news outlets that homeless...