Several Spanish organizations have sent a report to the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers to voice concern for judicial independence in the country.

Older job seekers and job seekers with a foreign background are invited twice less often for job interviews than native Dutch under the age of 35, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment wrote on September 1,...

"Migrants are the barefoot men of the second millennium, and we are with them." This is the message that will be conveyed during a demonstration planned for September 11 at the Venice Film Festival. Actors,...

More needs to be done in the Netherlands to make the body that monitors places of detention fully independent, effective and in line with the country’s international obligations, say UN experts.

The Belgian interior minister, Jan Jambon, would like to study the issue of a ban on taking pictures of police officers out of concern for their safety. This ban will not improve their safety. This ban violates...

The Dutch state will lodge an appeal against the ruling in the so-called Urgenda case. In this much discussed ruling, the court in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands must ensure that the emissions of greenhouse...

Amsterdam will improve and separate registration of anti-Islamic incidents and discrimination of Muslims. A majority of the city council has agreed on an initiative by liberal parties D66 and VVD. According to D66...

Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona, has proposed that the city joins a "network of refuge cities" in order to alleviate the drama of the Syrian refugees. Colau justified her proposal by saying, "We have a sea that is...

European identity is much more than race or ethnicity, but you wouldn’t know it from the actions of many EU members, typified by Hungary’s hate-filled campaign against migrants.

After foreigners nearly breached a Czech detention center in an attempt to leave, the interior minister decides to beef up security.