After agonising over its relations with Hungarian member party Fidesz, on Wednesday evening in Brussels the European People’s Party agreed to suspend the membership of Viktor Orbán’s party. The EPP will send an...

Following last week's deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left 50 people dead, the country’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing...

New evidence has come to light in the trial of the five Carabinieri accused of killing Stefano Cucchi, who died of his injuries while hospitalised in jail in Rome.

The European People’s Party suspended Hungary’s Fidesz party before one bad apple could spoil the bunch.

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

Germany and Belgium have agreed on a new democracy mechanism designed to improve the EU's defenses against nationalist, anti-values governments. The proposal, outlined at a meeting of EU ministers on 19 March, would...

In 2018, former Lithuanian MP K. Pūkas was accused of improperly possessing weapons and sexually harassing women who applied to work as his assistant. The women claimed that during their job interviews Pūkas made...

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...