Belgium joins the long list of member states that have seen successful national challenges to data retention laws based on an EU directive that has itself been invalidated.

"The loop" was an administrative procedure that allows the state to rectify, retroactively, errors and omissions without interrupting the major work. It was a useful tool in theory, but in practice, the loop was used...

Supporters of same-sex partnerships in Lithuania hope a historic Strasbourg decision will help push Lithuania to join the many EU countries that give this legal protection to same-sex couples.

A law approved in 2014 calls for Italy's six judicial psychiatric hospitals to be closed before March 31, 2015, and turned into several small healthcare facilities. But the bill has not been followed and these...

Activists for the Croatian NGO handed out a manifesto to ministers ahead of a government session last month. In the paper, the organization protests against an August military parade to mark the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm.

More than 40 associations and NGOs have called on Germany to overcome its blockade against the new Equal Treatment Directive. The planned directive aims to protect against discrimination based...

The German federal prosecutor general has stopped investigating two journalists for alleged treason for publishing internal documents from Germany's domestic intelligence service on the website netzpolitik.org. This...

The citizens of Rome are volunteering every day to welcome migrants at the Baobab Cultural Center — an astonishing example of solidarity.

No access to case files for migrants or their lawyers, foreign children being placed in guarded centers and sending Syrians back to Greece are the key problems of Poland's migrant return procedure. A big obstacle for...

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) published its 2014 Annual Monitoring Report on Refugee Status Determination Procedures.