Martin Selmayr’s appointment last month as secretary-general of the European Commission sparked accusations that the Commission had broken its own rules in order to place him in the job.

A ship chartered by a Spanish aid group has been impounded in Italy and three of its crew have been criminally charged. But it seems that their real crime was saving human lives.

As the April 8 election nears, Hungarian media is reporting that the country's intelligence agency, the Constitution Protection Office, was aware as early as January of foreign citizens’ efforts to collect information...

Twenty-eight signatories – among them Liberties – sent an open letter to EU governments expressing their concerns over slow progress in the ePrivacy reform currently being finalised by the Council. The European...

The Netherlands recently deported 50 Albanian nationals via a specially chartered flight to Tirana. Hundreds of Albanian nationals have claimed asylum in the Netherlands despite the fact that their cases have no ...

A solid 40 percent of refugees win court cases they filed to appeal the decision made on their asylum status in Germany. For those coming from Syria and Afghanistan, the figure stands at 60 percent. In 2017, a full...

Poland has some of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws, but the ruling PiS party wants to tighten them further still. This would put Poland at odds with international law. "Stop tightening abortion laws," read...

The new measures come as migrants' human rights continue to be violated from the moment they set foot in Europe.

The number of people helped to die under Dutch euthanasia legislation rose 8% last year, to 6,585, the regional monitoring committee said in March. Of these procedures, 99.8% were carried out carefully and in line...

Sweden is now the first country in the world to offer compensation to transgender people who were forced to undergo sterilization in order to be allowed to change their sex. Up until 2013, Swedish citizens had to...