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

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Poland's judicial purge aims to punish former communist stooges, argued Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. He listened with a poker face as MEPs said his...

A Spanish rapper says he has no regrets about any of his lyrics, which resulted in a conviction in May for insulting the Spanish royal family and glorifying terrorism. Josep Miguel Arenas Beltram, who goes by the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his stance on migration. Merkel told her Hungarian counterpart that he was forgetting that the issue is about people, and Europe...

Members of the European Parliament rejected the Copyright Directive proposal in its current form, leaving time until September to find a free speech-friendly solution instead of the proposed upload filtering.

The organization wants Minister of Internal Affairs Kajsa Ollongren to hurry with the introduction of an explicit constitutional prohibition against discrimination of LGBTI persons.

The Libyan Coast Guard in Zawiyah is a criminal organisation that the UN has formally accused of being part of a militia involved in human trafficking. Yet for Italy, Libya remains an ally in the fight against irregular immigration.

Poland's Parliament amended on 27 June the controversial Holocaust speech law that makes it a crime to suggest that the country played a role in Nazi atrocities. The law, only four months old, was amended at the...

The refugee organization Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland is disappointed with the results of the EU summit on migration in Brussels. "It is extremely disappointing that the EU is not capable of finding solutions which...