France has said EU states will intervene militarily to end slave markets in Libya. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the initiative in Abidjan on November 29, following meetings at the EU-Africa summit that...

Governments tell us that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear from mass surveillance. Why is this misleading and devious argument so powerful? How can we beat it?

Documents recently made available to the public through Statewatch reveal that EU member states are exploring all options to keep - if not expand - their current data retention programmes, despite an EU Court of...

Lithuania may soon become the only country in Europe to ban gender reassignment.

Media freedom around the world is at its lowest level in at least a decade, a new study shows. Journalists are increasingly under threat from government censorship, organised crime and commercial pressures. The...

Facebook says it is having success using its artificial intelligence to delete terrorism-related posts, though more work is still needed. At present, roughly 99% of material Facebook removes because of links to Al...

What turned out to be the #MeToo international campaign against harassment encouraged more than 600 female politicians in Iceland to go public with allegations of sexual harassment. Iceland, with the population of...

As alarm grows about Russia's propaganda campaign, the EU has said it will spend €1.1 million on training diplomats to monitor fake news. This money, as well as nearly €4 million in related expenses, will be part of...

Free speech won an important battle in the copyright reform debate in the European Parliament, though many threats to our rights remain.

A mayor in Germany has survived a knife attack that police believe was motivated by his liberal stance on immigration. Andreas Hollstein, conservative mayor of the town of Altena, was stabbed in the neck in a kebab...