Racist Violence Recording Network in Greece presented its 2013 Annual Report (2/4/2014). The report consists of: the qualitative and quantitative trends of hate crimes in Greece, as have been recorded by the...

The Hungarian Constitutional Court (CC), the National Electoral Commission and the Data Protection Authority (DPA) serve the interest of the government, instead of limiting its power - the CC concluded.

On Wednesday, April 2, the Chamber of Deputies abolished the crime of illegal immigration, introduced by the Berlusconi government in 2009. Though it wasn't punishable by imprisonment but only by a fine, it had...

Aurel Radulescu complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR ) for the overcrowding and the lack of hygiene of Romanian prisons and received a 6,000 euros compensation.

​Despite fallbacks in the independence of the press and growing national sentiment, Europe is still the most democratic region of the world, according to the annual report of Freedom House, a democracy watchdog.

Upholding the rights of minors, including equal access to education and health, remains a problem in the Czech Republic

The threat of voter fraud haunts upcoming elections in Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, as a sharp insight into the abuse of European democracy was revealed in the recent trial of Croatia's ex-Prime Minister Ivo...

HIV on rise in Europe and Central Asia - Contrary to the declining global trend in new HIV infections, in Europe the number of newly reported cases is increasing. In 2012, more than 131,000 new HIV infections were...

Under EU law, it is the author who decides about the public availability of his or her work, the Court of Justice of the European Union has decided.

An EU Court of Justice ruling concluded that hyperlinks to copyrighted content are legal, as long as the source is freely accessible. In the particular case, a Swedish journalists took umbrage with the fact that other...