
Brussels Uses Mental Health as Excuse To Exert Power
Sociologist Ashley Frawley argues that the EU’s mental health strategy enables a quiet expansion of institutional intervention into schools, workplaces, and digital platforms.

Sociologist Ashley Frawley argues that the EU’s mental health strategy enables a quiet expansion of institutional intervention into schools, workplaces, and digital platforms.

A Council of Europe deputy was informed that the Budapest visit of the Venice Commission had to be postponed—because the Tisza administration declined to receive the delegation.

The controversy has already cost the Ukrainian leader one of Poland’s highest state honors and is now overshadowing a key international gathering on Ukraine’s reconstruction.

A committee established to defend democracy from manipulation has become the cheerleader for a system that treats democratic speech itself as a manipulable object.

The Russian leader said Moscow is ready to resume negotiations based on the draft agreements reached in March-April 2022, while citing battlefield realities and criticizing Ukrainian strikes inside Russia

Strike on Zelensky’s home city has him demanding more ’pressure’ on Moscow from the West, including air defence systems.

“It’s not just about [President Sulyok’s] rights. Only fair trial can guarantee that none of us is ever at the mercy of the authorities,” the watchdog said in a statement.

The European Commission held a closed-door meeting on Tuesday with a Taliban delegation that arrived in Brussels on visas valid just 24 hours.

A judge has ruled that housing male prisoners in the female estate is unlawful, yet to date prison bosses haven’t complied.

New allegations include rape, child sex offences, sexual assault, modern slavery, and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
A Belgian judge is pursuing a Greek MP who was previously linked to the Fight Impunity NGO, alleged to have accepted illicit cash from Qatar.
For the government, the real criminals are the ‘sense offenders,’ those people who, on hearing of the latest appalling death, experience human feeling and give rise to anger.
PM Péter Magyar is moving to forcibly unseat the presidents of the Republic and the Constitutional Court and oust half of the opposition MPs from Parliament.
Siege conditions could lead to the Kremlin moving closer to taking the Donbas completely.
More than 240 arrests, reports of syringe attacks, stabbings, and assaults on law enforcement officers marked the 2026 edition.
Students are taught about topics such as ‘toxic masculinity’ and encouraged to create a ‘feminist alphabet.’
The former transport minister was convicted over a pandemic-era contracts scheme, while opposition parties demanded the Spanish PM resign and call elections.
Viktor Orbán, Geert Wilders and Alice Weidel took part in a major rally, organised by the Freedom Party of Austria, in a show of strength that reinforced the image of unity within Europe’s patriotic bloc.
European Council president António Costa drawn into talks on whether Brussels and the UK should still hold July’s meeting.
The move comes after Ukraine named a military unit after the UPA, whose wartime massacres of Polish civilians remain one of the deepest wounds in Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Over the weekend, Pride flags went up on the city’s central Elizabeth Bridge ahead of the Budapest Pride Parade on June 27th, only to be thrown into the Danube by a dissenter.
The Mandelson scandal, record migrant crossings, and repeated policy reversals helped erode the authority that brought Labour to power in 2024.