This article is part of our special report What’s new in teaching Europe’s past?. In his book “L’histoire, pour quoi faire?”, Serge Gruzinksi (2015) highlighted that “the future is a mirror in which the past is reflected”. The French historian…
Slovenian farmers, who have been fuming about environmental and other policies they say are making it near impossible to continue farming, have abandoned talks with the government and announced fresh protests after having already staged a huge protest last month.…
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The European Union is pursuing a unified approach vis-à-vis China, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on the first day of her three-day trip to the country on Thursday after French President Macron’s remarks on Taiwan drew criticism from EU…
Italy is key in the EU’s collective effort to produce ammunition for Ukraine, said European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton as he met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Thursday. Breton was in Italy to meet with…
Serbia does not want to detain the founders of the Nexo crypto company that are wanted in Bulgaria, Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev wrote in a complaint to several European and EU institutions, adding that this is an ‘unprecedented case’. Prosecutors…
With the leadership vote due on 3 June, the three most promising candidates to become the new leader of the social democrat SPÖ, currently in opposition, have entered the hot phase of getting party member backing. In May, the Social…
Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari dismissed threats of political crisis from the far-right Sweden Democrats, who want the currently undecided government to reduce the number of biofuels that must be blended into petrol and diesel from the current 30%…
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) accepted the candidacy of the Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) as a new member on Tuesday (11 April), less than ten days after the right-wing Finnish party placed second at general elections. The accession of the…
US President Joe Biden arrives in Belfast on Tuesday (11 April) at a delicate political time in Northern Ireland as he helps mark the 25-year anniversary of a peace deal that largely ended 30 years of bloodshed there. Biden, known…
Spanish centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP) would likely win if a general election were held today, while the recent emergence of left-wing party Sumar may not be enough to boost the chances of all progressive forces, including the currently governing socialist…
Residues of a fungicide banned in France in 2020 are omnipresent in drinking water, a report by the French National Health Security Agency published on Thursday reads. Traces of fungicide known as chlorothalonil metabolite R471811 were often found in French…