EUROPEAN POLITICS
The proportion of women in Austria’s government, the National Council and provincial governments decreased considerably between 2021 and 2022, the Institute for Parliamentarism and Democracy has found. From 2021 to 2022, Austria saw women’s representation in top political positions dropping…
Firefighters from all over Belgium took to the streets of Brussels on Tuesday to protest their current working conditions and the government’s plans to reform the pension system. On Tuesday morning, firefighters gathered to demand more staff and resources. The…
The top spot in the upcoming April elections is still up for grabs as three parties are currently neck-and-neck in the race to form a coalition that will most likely not be a repeat of the current five-party coalition, the…
This International Women’s Day, as in years before, and likely in years to come, women are faced with a long fight ahead of them. Global progress on women’s rights is “vanishing before our eyes”, UN chief António Guterres warned earlier…
Before imposing measures on individuals to increase the housing supply, like forcing them to rent out their vacant properties, the government should look inwards and set the example, Lisbon’s Mayor, Carlos Moedas (PSD), said at a conference about housing on…
Last Friday, Polish conservative politicians opened a can of worms – about a can of worms. Insects as food is a controversial topic that has gained traction, mostly in the form of misinformation, in Poland and other EU countries. Poles…
Women have held just 12% of the top jobs at 33 of the biggest multilateral institutions since 1945, and more than a third of those bodies, including all four large development banks, have never been led by a woman, a…
State-owned energy giant Orlen will take legal steps against Russia over its recent suspension of oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline, the company’s CEO, Daniel Obajtek, announced. In February, the Russian Tatneft company unilaterally halted oil supplies to Poland, allegedly…
The Croatian Agriculture Ministry on Monday unveiled its new system intended to more closely monitor how farmers spend approved farming subsidies without yet detailing the method or how frequent monitoring will be. The system would use a colour-coded rating system,…
The compromise reached between EU institutions on the phase-out of internal combustion engines for new cars and vans by 2035 should be changed, said Thomas Schmidt, Minister in the German region of Saxony and head of the Automotive Regions Alliance.…
The German government looks to be in deep crisis again. From the fate of the combustion engine to the construction of new highways, Berlin is rife with infighting. A new style, let’s call it ochre-politics, may be in order. Over…
UK ministers have been urged to immediately secure the UK’s participation in Horizon Europe, the EU’s multi-billion-euro research programme, following reports that Rishi Sunak’s administration is preparing an alternative UK-led scheme. In a letter on Tuesday (7 March), Scotland’s Higher…