The German Federal Ministry of the Interior recently initiated a draft law to improve cooperation between the country's secret services. The bill had its first reading in the German Bundestag in late April.

Those who work in another EU member state for only a few hours a week are subject to the social security rules of that state of employment, even if they're not insured in that country.

The ruling GERB party and Reformist Bloc proposed amendments that will enable investigation of crimes committed during the communist regime in Bulgaria, such as the killings in labor camps and the ethnic assimilation...

The Dutch have an increasingly positive attitude towards lesbians, homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders. Figures that relate to the acceptance of homosexuality have been improving for decades. Ninety-two percent of...

On May 5, the European Court of Human Rights passed judgment in the case Arratibel Garciandia v. Spain, ruling that Spain violated Article 3 of the Convention by not having adequately investigated complaints of...

Children growing up in Czech orphanages are far less likely to go on to study at university than those raised in families, and the biggest contributing factor is a lack of institutional support, not academic ability.

Mario D., an Italian man imprisoned in Florence, has been on a hunger strike for the last six months. He is protesting against the many transfers he has endured. "I am not a package," he said. He has been consuming...

According to recent revelations, the BND, Germany's foreign intelligence service, cooperated closely with the American National Security Agency (NSA). It appears that the NSA gave instructions to the BND on how to spy...

A proposal has been initiated in the Lithuanian Parliament to hold a referendum on making dual nationality available to more citizens of Lithuania. The Constitutional Court had ruled that, in order to really expand...

Many hundreds of children in the Netherlands go to school in the morning famished, unwashed and with torn clothing. This emerges from an inquiry of RTL Nieuws. It happens everywhere in the country, at village schools...