Meloni’s call for a blockade comes as more than 42,000 unvetted foreigners have arrived in Italy so far this year, up from nearly 30,000 in the same period last year, per figures from the Italian interior ministry.
France's interior minister reported that a priest was murdered in a small town in western France on Monday, August 9th.
The controversial article analyzed the existence of the “Lavender Mafia” in the Church.
The Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka complained on Sunday against the use of an “ugly” photograph of a Chinese Olympic
The U.S. says a deal has been reached with Germany to prevent Russian gas from being used as political leverage
The European Commission has decided to launch an investigation on the Pegasus Project. An investigative consortium formed by Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International and 17 media organisations revealed on Sunday that at least 10 governments had allegedly employed military spyware for illegal surveillance of journalists, lawyers, businessmen and members of civil society, Euractiv.com reports. “We are […]
Two German firms were fine to ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves, the EU court has said. “A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical, or religious beliefs in the workplace may be justified by the employer’s need to present a neutral image towards customers or to prevent social disputes,” the […]
Regions in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria were hit hard. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she was horrified by the “surreal” devastation in the flood-ravaged region of German. Merkel walked through the village of Schuld in Rhineland-Palatinate state, one of the two hardest-hit regions in western Germany. “It is a surreal, […]
US President Joe Biden met German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington. “We stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flank allies at Nato against Russian aggression,” US president Joe Biden told press while meeting German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington on Thursday, in their first bilateral summit, EUobserver reports. “Good […]
The European Commission launched three proceedings against Hungary and Poland over what it sees as violations of fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ people, leaving Budapest and Warsaw two months to respond to its concerns, Euractiv.com reports. The Commission said it considers Budapest’s new controversial legislative bans on “promoting or portraying” homosexuality or sex reassignment to minors […]
The European Commission reviewed the EU’s energy and climate law, aiming to cut carbon emissions by 55% before the end of the decade and initiate a decisive break away from fossil fuels. At the centre of the reform is a review of the bloc’s carbon market, the emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), which puts a […]
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal said the EU’s top court has no authority to impose an injunction on its legal reforms. The EU court in 2020, had ordered Poland to suspend a new judicial disciplinary chamber, citing political reasons. The EU court repeated its appeal for Poland to obey in a statement by its vice-president on Wednesday […]
President Emmanuel Macron called for a “summer of mobilisation” in France, announcing the mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers. “If the health situation remains under control for the moment, only a massive vaccination campaign will be able to prevent a new wave of hospitalisations as soon as August and new restrictive measures,” French president Emmanuel Macron […]
