Debate surrounding media freedom and freedom of expression is escalating in Estonia in response to the press and other media supporting the new governing coalition, which includes far right right Estonian Conservative People's Party.

Election season means photo-ops, hand shaking and baby kissing. And in Poland, scapegoating the LGBT community.

The far-right populist government has manufactured a new enemy: the LGBT community. But as polls show increasing support for same-sex couples, will the government's scapegoating translate into success at the ballot box?

Are you curious about what the European Parliament will look like with the UK taking part in elections? Here's how things will look if we still have MEPs from the UK after the election.

While all of us should have a say in the collective decisions that deeply affect our lives, many of us would rather spend time with family instead of educating ourselves on VAT thresholds and shipping regulations.

The crew of the rescue ship “Iuventa” from the German NGO Jugend Rettet has been honored by the Swiss Paul Grüninger Foundation with a human rights award for saving the lives of thousands of men, women and children in the central Mediterranean.

In making his annual report to the Italian Parliament, the National Ombudsman has highlighted problem areas including migrants arbitrarily being denied rights in detention, overcrowding in prisons, and high suicide rates.

Thanks in part to Brexit, the two European Parliament groups with the most anti-values parties will no longer exist after the elections.

Would you say that this system indeed respects your equal dignity, is worthy of our moral support and therefore, that it should be called democracy? Of course not. The tyranny of the majority is simply not democracy.

A new draft law has been proposed by the League and submitted by the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini with the aim of tightening sanctions for using and selling soft drugs.