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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

If rising anti-Semitism is a sign that Europe is becoming hostile towards all minorities, it is difficult to understand why a recent European colloquium on hate crime focused on only two vulnerable groups.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has published a report about the human rights situation in Germany. Along with some positive aspects he also calls for improvements. He recommends...

The Dutch government is opposed to the European plan to store passenger information of 500 million Europeans compulsorily. It believes the proposal is too great an infringement on the privacy of citizens and threatens...