Category: NEWS

All Eyes Off Rishi

The Tory leader is trying to consolidate support for his premiership, but everybody else seems to be asking: “Who’s up next?”

UN Contests New British Public Order Law

UN Contests New British Public Order Law

The UN asks for benevolence towards activists whose demands—mainly about human rights and environmental issues—are deemed “existential.”

April 30, 2023
Germany: Ibrahim A. Charged With Murder Following Brokstedt’s Knife Rampage

Germany: Ibrahim A. Charged With Murder Following Brokstedt’s Knife Rampage

The accused was deemed harmless by a prison psychiatrist before being released from custody where he was being held because of an earlier knife attack.

April 29, 2023
Pope Francis Denounces “Wartime Infantilism” and “Ideological Colonialism” in Budapest

Pope Francis Denounces “Wartime Infantilism” and “Ideological Colonialism” in Budapest

“[T]he vile path of ideological colonialism is the one that obliterates differences, as in the case of gender culture, or when it tries to sell the restriction of freedom as progress,” the pontiff said while meeting with President Novák and PM Orbán.

April 29, 2023
Chinese Import Fraud Could Shatter Europe’s Biodiesel Dreams

Chinese Import Fraud Could Shatter Europe’s Biodiesel Dreams

China is using industrial food waste to manufacture biofuels to feed the demand for biodiesel created by EU regulation, driving up food prices in the meantime.

April 29, 2023
Finland: PM-Elect Confirms Intention To Form Coalition With Finns Party

Finland: PM-Elect Confirms Intention To Form Coalition With Finns Party

Although Prime Minister-elect Petteri Orpo admitted that considerable differences exist among the four potential coalition members, he is confident that an agreement can be reached to form a government.

April 29, 2023
EU Reaches Ukraine Grain Deal With Eastern European Member States

EU Reaches Ukraine Grain Deal With Eastern European Member States

After weeks of intense negotiations, five EU countries will lift their earlier bans on Ukrainian agricultural imports.

April 29, 2023
Correction of Spain’s Rape Law Reform Finalised

Correction of Spain’s Rape Law Reform Finalised

The just-passed reform reintroduces a double criminal scale to punish more serious sexual crimes perpetrated using violence, intimidation, or with the victim’s will annulled, for example, by drugs.

April 29, 2023
Macron and His Ministers Forced To Avoid Crowds

Macron and His Ministers Forced To Avoid Crowds

Emmanuel Macron is not the only one to be greeted with the sound of pans when he travels. All his ministers, one after the other, have also had that painful experience.

April 29, 2023
Innovation Concerns As EU Parliament Agrees On AI Rulebook

Innovation Concerns As EU Parliament Agrees On AI Rulebook

Similar to the Digital Services Act and GDPR, the AI Act attempts to imprint the EU’s value system on technologies not yet created and scarcely understood.

April 28, 2023
Cash Offered to Farmers To End Blockade of Ukrainian Grain

Cash Offered to Farmers To End Blockade of Ukrainian Grain

The closer relationship with the EU that the war has brought is also a testing ground for how a future Ukraine membership in the common market will affect current member states and the common market.

April 28, 2023
UK Tories Clash Over Illegal Immigration Bill

UK Tories Clash Over Illegal Immigration Bill

‘Small-c’ conservatives might wonder why the Tory government is so determined to remove trafficking victims from the country, given its immigration record.

April 28, 2023
Nine COVID Vaccinations Per Citizen? Time for Contract Revisions

Nine COVID Vaccinations Per Citizen? Time for Contract Revisions

The excess of vaccines procured and the exorbitant amount of money involved in the deal have many officials across the EU asking questions.

April 28, 2023