Spain’s new socialist prime minister said Monday he would re-open bilateral discussions with Catalonia to ease tensions between Madrid and the regional government. Pedro Sánchez has taken a much softer stance towards...

Dogged by corruption and fraud allegations, Andrej Babiš is nevertheless getting a second crack at ruling the Czech Republic. This is bad news for civil liberties groups and independent media.

Human rights judges have rejected a mass electronic snooping complaint against Sweden.

The head of the Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate, Laura Codruta Kovesi, was dismissed from her position on Monday by president Klaus Iohannis. The center-right Iohannis was against removing Kovesi when...

What would the World Cup be like without referees? Sort of like what a country would be like without independent judges. And the Polish government is getting rid of its referees as quickly as possible.

Belgium's top court has ruled that the human rights impact of arms exports to Saudi Arabia has not been sufficiently considered.

Human rights judges declare that the public’s right to access archived material online outweighs the right of convicts to be forgotten.

The violence a police officer used while arresting a woman in Rotterdam last month was not proportional, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb wrote in response to questions from the local DENK faction. The officer was allowed to use...

Ideologies defining nationality as something determined by ethnicity or bloodline deny millions of people the right to citizenship, a UN expert has said. In her first report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN...

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