In a fact sheet, the commission summed up its goal: by 2030 “all textile products placed on the EU market are durable, repairable, and recyclable, to a great extent made of recycled fibres, free of hazardous substances, produced respecting social rights.”

“This is the only [moment] in which you can kill him legally,” reads the text, next to an arrow pointing to the belly of Miguel’s pregnant mother.

A U.S. State Department official expressed disappointment, saying that “Iran has, yet again, failed to respond positively to the EU’s initiative and … no progress was made.”

The trial opened with a striking statement by the ‘mastermind’ Salah Abdeslam. “First of all, I would like to say that there is no God but Allah and Mohamed is his servant.” By explicitly declaring the religious dimension of his act, he embarrassed the judges and the media who, despite the horror of the attacks, still struggle to accept the notion of Islamist terrorism.

The installation of an almost 100m² painting with anti-semitic motifs at the world art show documenta 15 has caused outrage in Germany.

President Saied is drawing the outlines of the beginning of secularism in Tunisia, unusual in Islamic lands where temporal power and spiritual power tend to merge.

Despite resistance from Germany, the ministers aligned with the EU Parliament’s recent resolution to ban the sale of combustion engines in the block in 2035.

With German gas reserves at a precariously low level for winter, Germany has decided to continue shunning nuclear energy, and has opted to reactivate coal plants.

While some—the comedian in question included—might want to brush it off as a humorous episode, how it reflects the current state of free speech in the UK is decidedly not funny.

Huge concessions from Sweden and Finland finally allowed Turkey to lift its veto against the entry of the two Nordic countries in the Atlantic Alliance.

After the war in Ukraine started, G7 leaders have been fixated on getting oil and gas from anywhere but Russia. This might prove more trying than expected.

The result of the vote on 23 June 2022 confirms the prevailing consensus among MEPs on the need to maintain control over public freedoms in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.