Representatives of national and ethnic minorities organisations have called on Polish authorities to tackle the rising wave of xenophobia and violence based on nationality, race and religion. “We are a country with a...

A former French parliamentarian who threatened to "drive out" certain judges has lost his bid to overturn a conviction and fine against him.

From cannabis legalisation to police identification, here are five areas where urgent legal reform is needed. Will Italy's leading candidates give their support?

A majority of the Dutch House of Representatives has voted in favour of abolishing the advisory referendum. In addition to the Dutch parties VVD, CDA, D66 and ChristenUnie, the SGP also voted to abolish these...

Customers’ personal data – even if it is stored on servers outside the EU, as it is often the case in the cloud computing era – should be turned over by tech companies, according to a new proposal of the European...

Three weeks after the attempted massacre by Luca Traini, who shot randomly at refugees in the city center, Macerata is the setting of a new racist and xenophobic episode: one or more people (whose identity is still...

Despite well-known instances of abuse and torture in Sudan, the Belgian government nevertheless pushed ahead with deportations of Sudanese nationals.

In its annual report, Amnesty warns of the decline of human rights in the EU. Laws adopted in Hungary make it almost impossible for NGOs to do their work in an effective manner. Moreover, the Polish government's moves...

On 22 February, the Italian Council of Ministers could have adopted a decree to reform the penitentiary system, which had already gone through the Parliamentary committees. Instead, the Council of Ministers decided to...

Jan Kuciak, an investigative reporter for the Slovak news site Aktuality.sk, was found dead along with his girlfriend in his apartment outside Bratislava. Police, who discovered the bodies on 25 February, said that...