The Malian government has brought in the Russian mercenaries to help fight the ongoing incursion of jihadist insurgents. Aid to the Church in Need reported in December that attacks on civilians by Islamic militants have increased, particularly targeting Christians and others who oppose them.

From Stockholm to Paris to Barcelona to Helsinki, EU governments braced themselves as citizens—singing anthems, waving national flags, and shouting slogans—gathered in the main squares and marched along the major thoroughfares to express their dissatisfaction with the current order.

The day after her election, Roberta Metsola was keen to demonstrate her commitment to women’s access to contraceptives and abortion in the European Union.

Beyond her personal case, Päivi Räsänen is well aware that her struggle is much broader: “It is my honor to defend freedom of speech and religion.”

The new law, the brainchild of the center-right ÖVP and the Greens and opposed by the FPÖ, allows citizens’ vaccination status to be checked by police. Fines for infractions will range from €600 to €3600.

“I want to make it clear: Bulgaria is a sovereign state and we have long since made our choice by becoming a member of NATO,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Petkov said in a special statement during a parliamentary session. 

The blocking of the bill in the Senate should not prevent its adoption at the second reading in the National Assembly. The new law extending the legal deadline for abortion should come into force before the end of the term in February 2022.

The party, originally established in 1870 to represent Catholic interests, gained a federal lawmaker on Tuesday after Schleswig-Holstein MP Uwe Witt, who in December left the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, announced his decision to switch party affiliations.

“Even when women don’t seek information about it, abortion is the first issue counsellors raise with women facing an unplanned pregnancy,” the report stated.

Well over half of the newly arrived illegal migrants (1,200) landed on the Canary Islands, while another 650 additional migrants landed on the Balearic Islands and in municipalities in Andalusia, like the coastal cities of Almería and Cádi.

Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, expressed hope for a diplomatic solution to the current unrest in the region. Yet, should efforts fail and Moscow attacks Kyiv, it would pay a “high price.”

The fact that a Western, formally democratic European country is being upbraided—however gently—by the human rights group, is something Europeans are rather unused to.