It is time to show Poland's homophobic ruling party that it isn't possible to erode human rights and our common European values without a price.

Ethnicity, religion, and history are too often markers of exclusion and disenfranchisement for the estimated 15 million people of African descent in Europe, @Jallow_M writes.

Last weekend, LGBTI activists in Poland were brutally beaten up by the police, but no one in the EU institutions had the guts to speak out about it.

LGBTI activists are facing fines or prison for hanging rainbow flags on statues in Poland, amid hardening feelings on EU values.

EU protection of LGBTI people in Poland has enraged members of the ruling elite, who hit back with apocalyptic rhetoric.

Poland might uphold a treaty against domestic violence after all, its ruling party has said, amid an outcry by the EU and Council of Europe.

The European Commission new security strategy especially focusses on critical infrastructures, cybersecurity, terrorism, child abuse and drugs. A joint cyber unit and stronger mandate for Europol is planned.

As the EU struggles to stop breaches of rule-of-law, and democratic backsliding, in some member states, the European Parliament plans to propose one single overarching tool to effectively monitor rogue capitals.

Poland heading for at least three more years of full control by the increasingly un-European Law and Justice party after Sunday's election.

If EU citizens want to know the truth, then journalists need protection from malicious litigation, as EUobserver joined the list of targets, over an article about the late Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Jihadist and extreme far-right groups were the most dangerous, but Irish nationalists also posed a threat, according to a new EU report on terrorism.

If the European Commission is seriously committed to its fundamental values, it is time to put words into practice and condemns unlawful returns and violence at its external borders and demands perpetrators of such illegal acts are held to account.

China denies it, but Uighur exiles who fled to EU states say they are still being terrorised by threatening phone-calls, SMS-es, and other forms of "refugee-espionage".

Three MEPs received numerous death threats in the Czech Republic for asking questions about how EU funds are being spent. One of them had his entire family under police protection after people threatened to murder his four children.