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...

Over 20.000 demonstrators went into the streets on Bucharest on Sunday to protest the ruling Social Democrat government's plan to make changes to Romania's justice system. Critics of the government fear the proposed...

A senior member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) – Germany’s new radical right-wing parliamentary party – is accused of having produced anti-Semitic and racist videos. Bundestag member Peter Felser, one of AfD’s...

What would Italy's state budget look like if civil society had the final say? Sbilanciamoci! answers this question by gathering the contributions of dozens of NGOs.

Investigative journalists in Serbia face regular threats and intimidation from public officials. Recently, Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin labelled a journalist from the investigative network KRIK as a...

If nobody has been smart enough in the last 2,500 years to answer the question of why should we obey the laws, is there something wrong with the question?

To strengthen the connection between national and European parties, a reform stipulates that only national parties - not individuals - will be allowed to create a European party eligible for funding. The proposal,...

The patient organisation Chronic Pain Ireland has announced it successfully applied in the name of a patient with severe chronic pain for a Department of Health-approved three-month licence for...

Why? Because it's useless and it's dangerous. Only traditional methods of gathering intelligence have helped security services stop terrorism. Mass surveillance, which doesn't produce results, is draining resources away from tools that actually work.

A new bill aims to reduce human rights groups' access to both private and public funding while simultaneously burdening them with increased administrative tasks to undermine their work.