Month: July 2025

“Wake-Up Call”: Farmers Mobilize in Brussels in Last-ditch Effort Against EU Budget Cuts

“Wake-Up Call”: Farmers Mobilize in Brussels in Last-ditch Effort Against EU Budget Cuts

Diluting agricultural funds and cutting back subsidies by 20% to make room for defense is “unacceptable” and undermines Europe’s food security, protest organizers say.

July 16, 2025
French Government Heading For Collapse as Budget Battle Intensifies

French Government Heading For Collapse as Budget Battle Intensifies

While the French PM claims to be “bold and taking risks,” we are still yet to see cuts of undue social welfare spending linked to immigration.

July 16, 2025
Turkey Jails Opposition Mayor Over Insulting Prosecutor

Turkey Jails Opposition Mayor Over Insulting Prosecutor

Ekrem İmamoğlu, a top opposition figure and Istanbul’s mayor, has received a new prison sentence amid what critics call a political crackdown.

July 16, 2025
German State Backtracks on AfD Public Job Ban

German State Backtracks on AfD Public Job Ban

AfD members in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate can no longer be excluded from teaching or policing roles, after the state walked back its proposed restrictions.

July 16, 2025
Budget Crunch Time: France Aims for Fiscal Austerity

Budget Crunch Time: France Aims for Fiscal Austerity

Instead of austerity in a recession, France and other deficit-ridden EU states should try fiscal stimulus as a means to end their economic standstill.

July 16, 2025
Pro-Russia Hacking Group Broken Up

Pro-Russia Hacking Group Broken Up

The group carried out 14 attacks in Germany, some lasting several days and affecting around 230 organisations, including arms factories, power suppliers and government agencies

July 16, 2025
Boomerang Effect: Europe Told It Must Do Better on Deportations

Boomerang Effect: Europe Told It Must Do Better on Deportations

“There is the danger that even those who are ‘successfully’ removed from the continent are later able to come back anyway.”

July 16, 2025
EU Parliament Hosts Exhibition on the Valley of the Fallen, That the Spanish Socialists Want To Destroy

EU Parliament Hosts Exhibition on the Valley of the Fallen, That the Spanish Socialists Want To Destroy

A photographic exhibition in Brussels highlights the spiritual and artistic legacy of Spain’s most controversial monument.

July 16, 2025
Austrians Losing Faith in Migrant Integration, Survey Finds

Austrians Losing Faith in Migrant Integration, Survey Finds

Only one in five Austrians say coexistence with migrants is going well, a sharp drop from recent years.

July 16, 2025
Is Time Finally Running Out for Poland’s Tusk?

Is Time Finally Running Out for Poland’s Tusk?

Talk is growing that the prime minister is planning his resignation for some time in the near future.

July 16, 2025
Israel Strikes Syria To Shield Druze City From Regime Forces

Israel Strikes Syria To Shield Druze City From Regime Forces

Israeli airstrikes followed deadly clashes in Suweida that left 200 dead, as fears grow over regime attacks on Syria’s Druze minority.

July 16, 2025
EU Sends Trade Envoy to Washington To Avert Trump Tariffs

EU Sends Trade Envoy to Washington To Avert Trump Tariffs

The EU’s top trade negotiator is meeting U.S. officials in a last-ditch effort to stop a 30% tariff on European goods.

July 16, 2025