Bosnian Serbs will hold a controversial parade on Monday to mark the “statehood day” of their entity, Republika Srpska (RS), although Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court had long ruled the holiday unconstitutional. At the end of a brutal 1992-95 war amongst Serbs,…
Brazilian security forces wrested back control of Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Sunday (8 January) after a flood of ex-president Jair BolsonaroR
Police from all over the country are being sent to the western German village of Lützerath to evict climate activists currently blocking its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. According to information obtained by Spiegel,…
Life won't change for the disabled in Europe until the EU fully implements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (Photo: Sophie Deracrouix) When they asked us at the Sharm-El-Sheik airport to flatten the back of my…
The recent sharp drop in asylum seekers in mid-December and early January is a development Austria’s conservative interior minister attributes to Serbia restricting travel for Indians and Tunisians. At their peak, some 1,000 Indian citizens applied for asylum in Austria…
Discussions about donating tanks to Ukraine is gathering more ground in Finland following the recent decisions by France, Germany and the United States to do the same. In an MTV3 News interview, the Chair of the parliament’s Defence Committee, Antti…
Fashion giant Zara saw its workers strike in demand for wage increases and better labour conditions on Saturday – the day the much-anticipated winter sales started. Large Spanish retail companies like Zara’s mother company Inditex and El Corte Inglés are…
(Photo: Kiefer/Flickr) Within a few years, central banks have shifted from worrying about the lack of inflation — and possible shift into deflation — to confronting the prospect of a stagflationary spiral. Debating whether current inflation reflects supply or demand-side…
Injuries received by an asylum-seeker, highlighted by MEPs in the European Parliament (Photo: The Left) Once Hans Leijtens will take office as the new executive director of Frontex, he will face a challenging task. Migratory pressures on the EU external…
Parliament will start discussions this week on a bill to reform the Supreme Court in another attempt to convince the European Commission to unfreeze Poland’s EU recovery money. The Commission has blocked funds worth €35.4 billion that Poland is due…