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...

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

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,...

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...

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.

Poland's national Office for Foreigners has published the statistical data on the international protection granted by the country in 2017. But the numbers don't tell the whole story.

Some of Europe’s best-known luxury jewelers have been accused of failing to ensure that the gold and diamonds on their shelves were sourced ethically, with many reportedly lacking adequate policies to stamp out...

A few days after the European Court of Human Rights trial of the "Jesus in jeans" case, a criminal court in Jaén, Spain, fined a young man 480 euros for a crime against religious feelings. He posted on Instagram a...