A majority of the Dutch House of Representatives has voted in favour of abolishing the advisory referendum. In addition to the Dutch parties VVD, CDA, D66 and ChristenUnie, the SGP also voted to abolish these...

Customers’ personal data – even if it is stored on servers outside the EU, as it is often the case in the cloud computing era – should be turned over by tech companies, according to a new proposal of the European...

Despite well-known instances of abuse and torture in Sudan, the Belgian government nevertheless pushed ahead with deportations of Sudanese nationals.

In its annual report, Amnesty warns of the decline of human rights in the EU. Laws adopted in Hungary make it almost impossible for NGOs to do their work in an effective manner. Moreover, the Polish government's moves...

On 22 February, the Italian Council of Ministers could have adopted a decree to reform the penitentiary system, which had already gone through the Parliamentary committees. Instead, the Council of Ministers decided to...

Jan Kuciak, an investigative reporter for the Slovak news site Aktuality.sk, was found dead along with his girlfriend in his apartment outside Bratislava. Police, who discovered the bodies on 25 February, said that...

A bill decriminalising the use and possession of small amounts of drugs has been withdrawn from the Slovakian Parliament, mainly because of opposition from government coalition partner the Slovak National Party. After...

Will Britons get to keep their EU citizenship after Brexit? This is the question now before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

The case of a Tajik family's extended placement in a detention centre, which caused the mother to attempt suicide, will be considered by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Croatia is under pressure to extradite a refugee to Turkey, where he is almost certain to face abuse and torture. Now the minister of justice must decide whether to protect the man's human rights and deny the request, or please the Erdogan regime.