A welcoming country for decades, Italy is now home to 5 million foreigners. But the government's welcome doesn't include citizenship for their children, even if they are born in the country.

Poland has passed a new law that restricts access to emergency contraception and will have a "catastrophic impact on rape survivors," a leading human rights groups warns. President Andrzej Duda on June 23 approved the...

Under new Home Office proposals for post-Brexit rights, all 3 million EU nationals living in the UK will have to apply for a "settled status" identity card to be able to remain and work in the country. The proposals,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged that all other parties in the Bundestag are in favor of same-sex marriage, and it enjoys wide support among German voters. Merkel was speaking at the Gorki Theatre for...

A Polish man has been given a conditional prison sentence for stealing luggage at Schiphol Airport and pretending to be a terrorist with a bomb.

Dutch police on June 15 arrested an 18-year-old man for allegedly disseminating IS propaganda, including violent videos. This was reported by the Office of the Public Prosecutor on Wednesday. The police also has...

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that patients can sue for illnesses they believe were caused by needle jabs, even when there is no scientific evidence. The ruling is said to pose a serious risk to...

Google is to stop scanning emails, a practice that allows it to show targeted advertising, but which has stirred privacy worries. The scanning has only been used on users of the free version of Gmail. However,...

An effort to collect signatures in support of a better migration policy in Italy has been hugely successful - even winning the endorsement of Pope Francis.

NGOs Germanwatch and Misereor have highlighted numerous instances of human rights abuses by German companies operating abroad. In a joint publication released on Wednesday, June 21, the NGOs documented over 10 cases...