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The prime minister of the Czech Republic has said that he "doesn't really understand" why people are protesting after hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Prague on Monday. In a statement on his website, Prime Minister Andrej Babis denied alleg...

France has issued I strong condemnation of a meeting earlier in the week between Italy's deputy prime minister, Luigi Di Maio, and the leadership of the French 'yellow vest' protesters. In a statement on 6 February, a spokesman for the French Foreign M...

About 4,500 people gathered in front of the European institutions in Brussels to demand justice for migrants. This social movement is supported by a coalition of trade unions and civil liberties groups, including Liberties member the Belgian League of ...

Czech MPs decided not to pass a proposal allowing spontaneous public assemblies (those that are not first reported to authorities). Moreover, the list of those who may announce public assemblies will not be broaden. On the contrary, the right to dissol...

After fiercely criticizing the planned tightening of asylum legislation in Germany, lawyers took to the streets in nationwide protests. They called on the federal government to respect and implement EU law as well as European and international human ri...

An innovative campaign against right-wing extremism wins the Politikaward 2015 for political communication in Germany. The idea of the campaign “Rechts gegen Rechts” (Nazis against Nazis) is to make neo-Nazis march against themselves by getting sponsor...

The anti-Islam movement Pegida is only allowed to demonstrate at a fixed location in Rotterdam. The local authorities do not want a march through the city streets, because it may have too many consequences for public order. Last week, Pegida-Netherland...

In Dresden, at least 15,000 people marched against hate, racism and violence to mark the Islamophobic movement "Pegida." Germany's interior minister has condemned the movement's hard right-wing extremists, saying they are not acting within the country'...

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany has ruled that participants of demonstrations are allowed to produce video and images of the police without automatically having to fear identity verification. In the case in question, the police had also fil...

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 included plans of the intelligence s...