Macedonian police used tear gas on hundreds of refugees, most of them from Pakistan, who tried to enter Macedonia from Greece last week.

New asylum laws have been in force in Germany since the end of October. The new regulations should help speed up the asylum process, but serious human rights issues, including overcrowding in temporary shelters, persist.

New law on in vitro fertilization came into force in Poland last month. This is the first regulation introducing standards in this area. However, according to the ombudsman and the Helsinki Foundation for Human...

The president's veto of the draft law on gender recognition sent the bill back to the legislature for an override vote, but this never took place.

After a leaked letter published in the Hungarian media last week, the European Commission on Monday officially announced its decision to register a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) on EU fundamental values in...

Ahmed Aboutaleb, the mayor of Rotterdam, says he is upset about the Paris attacks as a democrat, a Muslim and a Moroccan. "There is a lot of confusion going on in my head. In my body, grief and anger fight with each...

The government's desire to collect air passengers' data ahead of an EU ruling on the matter has invited strong criticism and warnings that such a move could violate national and European law.

The Istanbul Convention, which will come into force in the Netherlands in 2016, aims to strengthen efforts to combat violence against women and domestic violence.

As we wait for changes to prohibitionist drug policies in Italy, we should inform ourselves about exactly what the law is and could become. Now everything you need to know is just a click away!

Troubling inconsistencies exist between witness statements and the government's account of the incident near the Bulgarian-Turkish border that left one asylum seeker dead.