Three quarters of Dutch say they have a positive opinion about the democracy they live under, but they are far less happy about the political process.

In an accelerated procedure, the Dutch Senate has passed a law against marriages with young girls. State Secretary Dijkhoff earlier said he can do little for girls aged 15, 16 and 17 who are taken to the Netherlands...

In response to the increased number of people seeking protection, the German government proposes a new asylum law to speed up the relevant procedures. The parliamentary decisions on this law will be fast-tracked and...

During a messy divorce, children should bring along their own attorney to the courtroom, the Christian Party CDA argues. CDA claims that fighting parents often forget their children's interests in a divorce. In 20...

Following the partial replacement of the members of the Court of Justice, Koen Lenaerts of Belgium was last week elected by his peers to serve as president of the Court of Justice of the European Union for until...

Almost everything you have been told about drugs is false. The Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms launches its very first campaign, aiming to debunk all the false myths on which prohibitionist policies are founded.

The French association of journalists APJ filed a claim before the ECtHR against the French Intelligence Law (loi de renseignement), which permits large-scale surveillance, on the day the law came into effect. The...

In a Romanian case, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that government bodies are not authorized to exchange personal data without permission. Citizens must be informed beforehand. The judgment may...

Human rights associations denounce the lie of Belgian authorities that some asylum seekers are ready to voluntarily return to Iraq.

The Czech Republic's good name and little-known language allow xenophobic rhetoric against refugees, even from the country's president, to go largely unnoticed by the West.