EUROPEAN POLITICS
In Los Angeles, a man screaming “kill Jews” attempts to break into a family’s home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are “stinking Jews” and should stay off the slide. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites,…
Banning the defacing of national flags following a huge spike in anti-Semitic behaviour in Austria recently is something being proposed by Chancellor Karl Nehammer. Reports of anti-Semitism have increased sharply in Austria recently, with a reported 300% increase from last…
Germany’s interior ministry is set to reinstate border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic to crack down on irregular migration, despite strong opposition from within the coalition government and trade unions, who have called the move inefficient. German Interior…
France will totally phase out coal by 2027, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday (25 September), adding that he hopes for more European climate funding. “Europe must invest more in the ecological transition. There can’t be a real European…
A progressive green coalition – comprised of several small parties – was launched in Bucharest on Monday to participate in the four rounds of elections scheduled in 2024. This alliance includes the Volt and ACUM parties, MEP Nicu Ştefănuţă (elected…
The increasing need for health workers has led the government to ‘import’ staff from countries such as India and Cuba instead of proposing policies to fix the current issues in the system. For years, Italy has been reckoning with a…
A joint candidate list of minor political left groupings is taking shape in Czechia ahead of the 2024 EU Parliament elections and they’ve got plans that include rejecting the European Green Deal. Among prominent figures that could run for the…
French politicians have taken aim at EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s reaction to Azerbaijan’s military operations against the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh, saying his remarks were inadequate amid fears that economic and energy interests are taking precedence. Three years…
Poland and Germany had their first hearing with the European Commission on Wednesday (20 September), following a complaint by Warsaw that Germany shipped 35,000 tonnes of illegal waste into the country. “I hope that we can get to a point…
Bulgarian authorities expelled on Thursday the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia, Archimandrite Vassian Zmeev, who was expelled from Skopje a week earlier because of allegations that he was a Russian spy. Together with Zmeev, two citizens of…
Belgium is aiming for a new migration pact to be ratified before its EU Council presidency stint ends, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday. In his speech, De Croo (Open…
Young conservatives came together in Brussels to talk about how they see the future of Europe, in response to the Conference on the Future of Europe, the EU democracy experiment promoted by the institutions, where randomly selected citizens had a…