Finnish family planning was stalled by climate anxiety, Ukraine war
The population of Finland is ageing fast and worries about climate change and the war nearby are having an impact on the willingness to reproduce, according to a survey published…
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Human Rights Watch criticises Sweden’s reconciliation with Turkey
Sweden was sharply criticised for the way it is approaching Turkey in negotiations to join NATO by Human Rights Watch Director Tirana Hassan on Thursday. Sweden applied for NATO membership…
European Mediterranean states to establish large marine protected areas
An agreement to establish a large marine protected area in the Mediterranean is in the pipeline between Italy, France, Spain, and Cyprus to meet EU targets on the protection of…
MEP ‘friendship’ groups with foreign countries to be banned post-Qatargate
‘Friendship’ groups of MEPs with countries outside the EU will be banned under new plans to improve transparency in the European Parliament in the wake of the Qatargate bribery scandal.…
Swedish EU presidency makes their far-right a pan-European threat
A street protest by hard-right Sweden Democrat supporters – while the party are not officially in government, they now yield considerable influence over policies (Photo: Wikimedia) New year, new Swedish…
Putin ally says expat war critics should lose homes
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Vyacheslav Volodin has played a significant role in the Putin presidency and is now chairman of the Duma Russians who have gone abroad and criticised…
Puigdemont’s sedition charges dropped after the penal code change
Charges of sedition against the former leader of the Catalonia region were dropped by a Spanish Supreme Court judge on Thursday after Spain’s government scrubbed the crime from the country’s…
TAP chief to testify in Portuguese parliament at request of right-wing Chega
The CEO of Portugal’s national flag carrier, Christine Ourmières-Widener, will testify in parliament next Wednesday, following a mandatory request from the conservative Chega party over a controversial golden handshake. The…
Slovenian power, gas providers to be compensated for capped prices
The government has decided to help out all electricity and natural gas providers with compensation for having to sell energy at capped prices, in a measure estimated at around €350…
Why Eli Crane Defied Kevin McCarthy
The freshman Republican from Arizona was the only newcomer to hold out against Speaker Kevin McCarthy until the very end. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have