Workers from Slovakia, Romania and Vietnam were forced to toil for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week with no pay.

A simpler eviction process and a more active police force are the best ways to more easily remove unlawful settlements, a government investigation suggests.

Poland? Romania? Do you have strong feelings about corruption or humanitarian groups? Find out which Eastern European country is the place for you.

A Hungarian court judged that the 444 news portal had damaged the reputation of a political party by hyperlinking to a third-party video. The European Court of Human Rights has now found that the Hungarian decision violated freedom of speech.

After half of the EU countries refused to accept the Romanian presidency’s compromise text for the draft Copyright Directive, talks seemed to reach a halt mid-January. Early this week a new compromise was found – but it maintains the threat of censorship.

The new municipal government of Madrid, a coalition between the Popular Party and Ciudadanos with the support of the extreme right party Vox, will abolish the Protocol for Effective Police Identifications (PIPE).

An updated guide on European legislation in the field of data protection was released today, June 5, 2014, by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA). The handbook covers the main legal documents...

Last week the Human Rights Council concluded its 26th session, during which it adopted 34 texts. One of these texts was resolution A/HRC/26/L.22/Rev.1, by which the HRC decided to establish an intergovernmental...

A new Council of Europe convention, The Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention, enters into force on August 1. It establishes a set...

Free Software Foundation recently launched a guide on how to encrypt emails. This guide helps internet users send and receive emails that are coded, which would prohibit anyone who may be intercepting an email from...