The French Senate adopted a resolution recognising the Holodomor famine as genocide in a move that ‘rewrites history’, said the Russian Embassy in France on Thursday. The resolution was adopted by senators on Wednesday evening by a vast majority. The…
Following the gruesome death of an eight-year-old child at the hands of his stepfather, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reopened the topic of reinstating the death penalty, with over half of Poles supporting the idea despite the legal impossibility of implementing…
Spain violated current MEP and former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s political rights – and those of his constituents – by stripping him of his regional parliamentary seat, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled on Thursday. The Committee concludes that the…
As a constitutionally neutral country, Austria has not restricted itself to humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine but has not gone further than delivering helmets, however, leading members of the two government parties are split on whether demining Ukrainian territories…
The LGBTI Intergroup at the European Parliament watches over member states and the Commission closely while also influencing legislative files ‘to make sure the LGBTI community is not forgotten’, Greens/EFA MEP and co-President of the LGBTI Intergroup Kim van Sparrentak…
A local court in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla, on the North African coast, has opened an investigation into an alleged case of postal voting fraud after an unusual number of people requested documentation for remote voting in the…
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Wealthy democracies rev up an effort to spend trillions on a new climate-friendly energy economy, while stealing away some of China’s manufacturing power. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Strengthened by billions of federal dollars, semiconductor companies plan to create thousands of jobs. But officials say there might not be enough people to fill them. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Migration has become so politicised in recent decades that even the successful integration of refugees from Ukraine will not change the European approach to people from other continents, according to the predictions of Prague-based experts. The Temporary Protection Directive was…