Month: September 2021

Twenty years after the Netherlands became the first in Europe to legalise same-sex marriage, Switzerland is among the last Western European countries where it is Read more

Carles Puigdemont, a member of the European parliament, was arrested after arriving in Sardinia, Italy for a Catalan folklore festival, his lawyer said. The former Read more

Politicians who lost to Kremlin-backed candidates in Russia’s parliamentary election last weekend have formed a coalition to contest the results from online voting in Moscow. Read more

The convicted terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal” has lost an appeal against his life prison sentence in Paris. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Read more

Ukraine has adopted a new law aimed at limiting the influence of oligarchs on national politics. The legislation will prevent wealthy individuals from funding political Read more

The European Union has said it will continue to “closely” monitor the issue of media freedom in Poland. Polish broadcasting regulators agreed on Wednesday to Read more

The European Union’s top court has all but confirmed that so-called defeat devices, used to trick emissions tests in cars, are contrary to EU law. Read more

A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government on Thursday over a law allowing abortion up until the birth of Read more

A man has been arrested in Paris over the disappearance of a woman in Italy who had refused an arranged marriage. The suspect is the Read more

Norway’s Labour party have begun talks with their potential coalition partners in a bid to form a government. The leaders of the Labour, Centre and Read more

Ukraine’s parliament has adopted a law defining and banning the concept of anti-Semitism. The new legislation aims to “counteract and prevent anti-Semitism and its manifestations Read more

One charger to the rule them all – that’s the plan from the EU Commission. Brussels has outlined a set of proposals to establish one Read more

A day after the 2016 US elections, Angela Merkel offered the newly elected president what observers described as a thinly-veiled warning: cooperation only “on the Read more

Europe is battling a record-breaking surge in energy prices that threatens to derail the post-pandemic economic recovery, strain household incomes and even tarnish the nascent Read more

The first police officer to arrive at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris as it was under attack by fighters from the so-called Islamic State Read more