Since the Austrian government’s inauguration in December, journalists have been publicly attacked by politicians and media outlets have been defamed for critical journalism. Financial cuts to public media are on the...

Germany aims to pass new laws on social media after revelations that Facebook data was used to manipulate voters. "In future we will clearly have to monitor companies like Facebook more strictly and punish data...

From next year, people will be able to "manage" their own medical records on their computer or mobile phone and decide who should have access to what information, Health Minister Bruno Bruins has told de Volkskrant....

A new report from the national ombudsman finds that Dutch municipalities and the police are increasingly restricting protesters in what they can and cannot do.

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 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.

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...

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.

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...

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...