Poland’s judges, backed by the EU and international bodies, are pushing back against the Warsaw government’s attempts to weaken judicial independence.

Women marched in solidarity in Vilnius on 8 March to bring attention to issues surrounding women’s rights in Lithuania, including widespread sexual harassment and systematic exploitation. According to the organisers...

More than a 100 advertising companies, including Google and Facebook, are allowed to track visitors to government and other public sector websites, in a clear violation of governments' own data protection rules, a new...

Italy's interior minister on Monday renewed his efforts to handicap charity ships that rescue migrants off Libya and bring them to the safety of Italy. Matteo Salvini wrote on Twitter, "The ports have been, and...

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Lawyer Zuzana Čaputová, a newcomer to politics who has run a campaign focused on tackling corruption, won the largest share of votes in Slovakia’s presidential ballot on Saturday. With 40.6 percent of the votes, she...

Today is Equal Pay Day in Germany, home to one of the EU's largest gender pay gaps. Women in Germany earn 21 percent less than men, in terms of average gross hourly earnings. This year's Equal Pay Day is on 18 March...

The Court of Rome has upheld the right to health and a dignified existence even for serious offenders, ruling that revoking the provision of assistance to these offenders is unconstitutional.

On Thursday members of the European Parliament passed with a large majority a legally non-binding text which stated that MEPs regretted "the fact that women continue to be underrepresented in executive positions in...

There were 580,800 first-time asylum seekers in EU countries in 2018, a drop of 11 percent from the year before, according to figures published by Eurostat on Thursday. The majority of applicants were Syrian, Afghan...