UK based charity The Loop,has opened the UK's first ever drug safety testing facility in Bristol after successfully applying the model at festivals. The aim is to reduce harm among recreational drug users. The new...

There is much more diversity in terms of why people seeking asylum and also where they come from. The Association Carta di Roma provides some answers to important questions about migration.

A new study on legal safeguards against bulk surveillance regimes urges for more judicial oversight in protecting civil rights. The study by technology thinktank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung argues that the recent...

In its attempt to limit the spread of technology used for surveillance, in September 2016 the European Commission published a draft proposal for an improved export controls regime. Export controls are a regulatory...

Since 2014, NGOs have been conducting search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, saving the lives of those fleeing conflict and persecution. Currently, however, no more rescue ships operate in the Central Mediterranean. Why is that so?

The Croatian ombudswoman has said she will report police treatment of migrants to EU authorities. Lora Vidović made an unannounced visit to a police station in Donji Lapac in September to review records on the...

Florin Iordache, the deputy speaker from the ruling Social Democrat Party in Romania literally showed his middle finger in reaction to the European Commission’s request to immediately suspend ongoing judicial reforms....

If a restrictive new act on public gatherings on national holidays is accepted, the Hungarian government will have found another way to seriously restrict freedom of assembly, according to the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.

After leaders of the Italian populist Five Star Movement (M5S) called journalists “jackals” and “whores” Italian press unions have called on journalists to join protests. Journalists’ unions, FNSI and Usigrai...

Support for democracy has fallen in ex-communist Eastern European countries since 2006 a study by the German Economic Institute suggests. Researchers warn that the progress the region has achieved since the fall of...