EUROPEAN POLITICS

Green EU lawmaker Ernest Urtasún has joined Spain’s new government as the minister of culture and The Left’s MEP Sira Rego will be the new minister for youth and children,…

Finland has identified a surge in asylum-seekers from Russia and has taken measures to curb it by closing four of the nine border crossing points along its 1,340 km-long frontier…

We must see the amnesty law as a unique opportunity to counter the rejection that Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont incites in public opinion, writes Juan Fernando López Aguilar. Juan Fernando…

Hungary’s ruling party unveiled billboards vilifying European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen on Monday (20

Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen has become the fourth commissioner to leave her post to focus on national politics as she announced her candidacy for the Finnish Social Democratic…

Migration activist Carola Rackete has vowed to fight “climate apartheid” after the far-left Die Linke party formally selected her and GUE/NGL leader Martin Schirdewan on Saturday to be the party’s…

The tragic death of young Giulia Cecchettin, killed by her ex-boyfriend, has united Italy’s political parties in combating the growing number of femicides, with Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein calling…

Burgenland’s far-right leader Johann Tschürtz may be charged with sedition after he read out a list of names of a primary school class in a Vienna suburb to suggest migrants…

Dozens of migrants stood behind barriers at two crossings on Finland’s border with Russia on Saturday (18 November), the Finnish Border Guard said, after Helsinki erected barricades to halt a…

President Petr Pavel warned of the need to protect democracy and its erosion in countries like the UK and the US during the 34th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution –…