The UN refugee organization UNHCR sounded the alarm about the situation in Greece. The agency warned that Europe "stands at the threshold of a humanitarian crisis which is largely self-induced." According to a UNHCR...

Italy is one step closer to joining other EU countries on marriage equality, but the new civil unions bill has been weakened by the elimination of the stepchild provision.

Stakeholders, civil society and citizens are invited to introduce their ideas and suggestions for the current regime for registration of interest representatives who seek to influence the work of the EU institutions....

The 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council launched this week. In his opening speech, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated, "When governments clamp down against grassroots activists [...] or scrap the...

The Rotterdam philanthropic foundation De Verre Bergen (The Faraway Mountains) has bought a hundred houses in the last couple of months in order to house Syrian families with a residence permit. The foundation also...

The judges at the Central Appeals Court warn of legal inequality, destruction of knowledge and higher costs if their body is to be closed. The government's plan to close this court will have a "disastrous" impact on...

A day before Orbán's announcement that the Hungarian government is planning a referendum on the EU's refugee quotas, skinheads blocked the entrance to the National Elections Office, preventing an opposition politician from submitting his own question.

According to the proposal on refugee relocation in the EU, Poland is to accept a maximum of 400 people from Greece and Italy in 2016.

The number of directly elected women is the lowest since 2000, but state attorneys say they will take no action to attempt to enforce a quota.

A student's application for a traineeship with an agrarian wholesale business in the Frisian town of Drachten was rejected after he told the employer he was gay. Arguing from the Bible and her Christian conviction,...