The German government will take a more restrictive position in the upcoming negotiations on revamping the EU asylum system and will accept the controversial accelerated asylum procedures. While Germany has…
The Austrian government looks to reign in its independent public broadcaster ORF following significant pressure from private sector media companies, in a move harshly criticised by experts. In Austria, the…
Anti-royalist protests and a heated debate about the royal family’s involvement in Dutch colonialism and slavery overshadowed the Dutch holiday, as King Willem-Alexander and his family visited Rotterdam on Thursday.…
Negotiations to form a majority government with the nationalistic and populist Finns Party, the Swedish People’s Party and the Christian Democrats will start next week, Petteri Orpo, chair of the…
The tribunals were intentionally set up offshore. Now, increasingly, military judges are hearing testimony and arguments from a classified annex. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
A legal cannabis farm in Canada (Photo: Richard T, The CBD) Although cannabis has been made legal — or at least decriminalised — in over 20
Government officials in Rome are fuming at EU High Representative Josep Borrell for his push to appoint former foreign minister Luigi Di Maio as the EU special envoy chief to…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her UK counterpart Rishi Sunak seem to have found a common line to curb irregular immigration and trafficking by smugglers in the Mediterranean and…
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has urged the main opposition centre-right Partido Popular party (PP/EPP) not to harm Spain’s image in the EU after the conservative party accused EU Commissioner…
The Spanish government is committed to reducing the country’s deficit to 3% of its GDP by 2024, one year earlier than foreseen by the progressive government, Finance Minister María Jesús…