Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), and AfD MP Alice Weidel, the party’s joint leader in the Bundestag, are under investigation by Germany’s state prosecutor over possible...

The German Medical Association spoke out against proposals for young asylum seekers to undergo mandatory medical tests to ascertain their age. They say the checks would be ethically wrong and unreliable. Tests such...

Krassimir Kanev, the chairman of Liberties member the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee​, analyses the role of human rights in the Bulgarian government's Programme for the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Almost 30 data leaks are reported every day, according to the latest available figures from the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). Organisations that lose private data from citizens get away with it without being...

Bulgaria’s president has vetoed the Parliament’s anti-corruption bill a day after the country started its half-year EU presidency. Rumen Radev said in a statement that the adopted law not only does not create an...

The draft bill on citizenship for immigrants, based on 'jus soli' (Latin for 'law of the soil'), is set to be excluded from the parliamentary schedule for the remainder of the legislative term. The bill was promised...

The Constitutional Court concluded that Lithuanian Member of Parliament (MP) Kęstutis Pūkas, who had harassed young women working and wanting to work for him, seriously violated the Constitution and his oath of office.

2017 was a busy year for human rights in Europe. Read the five most viewed articles on Liberties from the past year to get the best of our content!

It seems that privacy is not a concern to E-stonia, where data protection laws allow government agencies to access users' personal data, which ICT companies retain despite EU law.

During this series we've learnt about mass surveillance, privacy and democracy. But how do they all fit together?