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EU must integrate ‘right to abortion’ into treaties

Pro-choice rally in Poland. ‘Women’s rights are human rights and these are always non-negotiable. It is time for our European treaties to reflect this' (Photo: Eric Maurice) After decades of hard global work to ensure the fundamental sexual and reproductive…

The Treaty of Amsterdam — 25 years on

The then heads of state and government of the EU member states, with — in the centre — the late Jacques Chirac of France and the late Helmut Kohl of Germany, at the signing of the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam…

Disabled children and the war against Ukraine

The war against Ukraine and homemade policy decisions are causing disastrous conditions for disabled children living in institutions. The EU should ensure its humanitarian aid involves this vulnerable group while also supporting community-based disability support, writes Florian Sanden. Florian Sanden…

Sánchez takes risk by snubbing Catalans

Is Pedro Sánchez (pictured on election poster) afraid concessions will cost him the next election? Catalan autonomy is unpopular in the rest of Spain (Photo: Helena Spongenberg) At what point will Catalonia’s Republican Left decide enough is enough? The separatists…

The last thing Europe needs is another war on its doorstep

Sarajevo. Bosnia was once the poster child for international reconstruction efforts, flooded with attention and $14bn of international aid, making it a laboratory for arguably the most expensive and innovative democratisation experiment in history (Photo: Michał Huniewicz) If Bosnia and…