Nine EU governments at the UN yesterday called on Poland to restore its formerly independent and effective Constitutional Tribunal and protect the rule of law. But will EU ministers speak up again at next week’s General Affairs Council?

Hungary and Poland must allow independent funding for NGOs under the €1 billion Norwegian aid program, which is currently up for renewal, Norway's prime minister, Erna Solberg, has said. Both countries are seeking to...

The campaign, which is supported by many NGOs and civil society actors, proposes concrete solutions to overcome the infamous Bossi-Fini law and foster integration.

The Polish government's report ahead of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights is silent on a number of key issues and ignores the input of civil society organizations.

Evidence uncovered by a new investigative report from Al Jazeera has prompted Italian ​NGOs to once again pressure the government to address the surveillance industry's continued business dealings with repressive regimes.

After finally adopting a proper freedom of information act, Italy improved its right to information rating - but only in theory, as in practice there is still much to be done to ensure freedom of information.

Of the over 3 billion euros given to international organizations by the Italian government and its contributors in 2015, most of it is used for agriculture and food supply by the UN's Food and Agriculture...

A new report by a British internet watchdog foundation finds that over a third of all online links to child porn are hosted on servers in the Netherlands

The police in the Netherlands can search a smartphone as long as it does not disproportionally infringe on the owner's privacy.

The Constitutional Court rejected the government's proposal to review the constitutionality of the law under which loans in Swiss francs were converted to euros because the laws had a legitimate aim - to increase social protection.