A new collection of recommendations for penitentiary authorities lays the foundation for the improvement of prisons across Italy.

The European Commission has adopted a proposal urging member states to make drinking water fully accessible to all citizens. The member states have to take measures to promote good use of water, encouraging, for...

Senators in the Netherlands have approved a new law that makes all Dutch adults organ donors unless they opt out. The law narrowly passed in the upper house of the Dutch Parliament. The law's drafter, Pia Dijkstra,...

Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland of the Council of Europe has presented the Raoul Wallenberg Prize for extraordinary humanitarian achievement to the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC).

The Hungarian government recently submitted to parliament a package of three legislative proposals that would further paralyse the work of civil society groups.

The perpetrator of a shooting spree in Italy has admitted that his act was one of revenge against the murder of an Italian woman by a foreign national.

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the face of the Catholic Church in Germany, no longer rejects the liturgical blessing of same-sex couples. In individual cases, the Marx wants to give space for this on the basis of...

The former boss of the Union of European Football Associations, Michel Platini, has lodged a complaint against Switzerland with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), alleging his human rights have been...

Facebook’s default privacy settings and use of personal data violate German consumer law, a Berlin regional court has ruled. The court determined that Facebook collects and uses personal data without providing its...

Despite the international attention surrounding Poland's controversial new Holocaust bill, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declined to comment when asked about it on Saturday, 10 February. The law imposes jail time of...