Two years ago, lawyer Bénédicte Ficq brought charges against four tobacco companies on behalf of the Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation and two patients who had become seriously ill due to smoking. The suit accuses...

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

The European Commission said on Wednesday, 14 February, that EU funds to member states should be conditional on their respect for democratic values. "It is... the moment to consider how the link between EU funding and...

A public prosecutor in the Netherlands has decided not to prosecute Prime Minister Mark Rutte for discrimination. Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders submitted a complaint against Rutte last November. He pointed...

The House of Representatives on 6 February approved a bill to expand the measures to reprimand or discipline judges for unlawful behavior. All parties in the House voted in favour of amending the Legal Status of...

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 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,...

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...