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Belgian authorities have charged seven people over “possible terrorist attacks”, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday (29 March). The announcement came the day after prosecutors said they had detained eight people following raids on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in…
The UK government Tuesday (28 March) raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland to “severe”, ahead of an expected visit by US President Joe Biden to mark the 25th anniversary of a landmark peace accord. The domestic spy agency…
Members of the European Parliament of the civil liberties committee adopted their position on key migration files on Tuesday (28 March), inaugurating the beginning of inter-institutional negotiations between the European Parliament and EU ministers. The group of files is due…
This article is part of our special report A look at democratic experiments across Europe. EU citizens’ panels introduced after the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) mean deliberative democracy experiments will continue at the EU level, but they…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will visit China this week to explore how Beijing could play a more prominent role in ending the war in Ukraine, as relations with the world’s biggest economy pose no major hurdles. Sánchez will be…
The attempt to interfere in the work of the media by the presidential press secretary Kiril Atanasov was registered as a threat by the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), which has registered 94 cases of violations of…
Germany will send financial support to Kenya to boost the country’s production of fertilisers with green hydrogen produced by renewable energies to help reduce the country’s dependence on fossil-fuelled fertiliser imports. Funds set to support climate-friendly fertiliser production in the…
President Emmanuel Macron’s supporters, including in government and parliament, are divided on strategy regarding the “mediation” proposed by French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) leader Laurent Berger on behalf of the inter-union group on Tuesday. Berger renewed his wish to…
Inadequate social benefits, racial profiling, inadequate protection of unaccompanied children seeking asylum, poor housing, increased pressure on media freedom, and failure to reach climate targets were listed as Austria’s human rights failures, Amnesty International wrote in its annual report. Amnesty…
Scottish nationalists picked Humza Yousaf to be the country’s next leader on Monday (27 March) after a bitterly fought contest that exposed deep divisions in his party over policy and a stalled independence campaign. The 37-year-old practising Muslim will succeed…
The European Commission will listen to the version of Libyan partners about the incident that occurred with the NGO SOS Mediterranee boat Ocean Viking on Saturday (25 March), Commission spokesperson Peter Stano told the press on Monday. SOS Mediterranee said…
A new immigration bill in the UK that aims to stop migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats from France is “incompatible” with Britain’s international obligations, Europe’s top rights body said on Monday (27 March). In a letter addressed…