Europe, Day by Day

The electric car – the expensive must-have of the new green citizen. But is it really?

To function, an electric vehicle’s battery requires lithium a rare...

Raids, interrogations, arrests and record prison sentences. These are the increasingly heavy handed tactics used against environmental campaigners across Europe.

But meanwhile, traffic disruption, border blockades...

Armenia made headlines this week as Brussels announced talks on visa liberalisation, marking a significant but cautious step towards EU membership. The Armenian foreign minister hailed the...

Sveti Stefan, a stunning islet off the western coast of Montenegro, also known as the “pearl” of Montenegro, is one of the country’s most beautiful cultural...

Can the French left alliance get themselves together and finally form a government, can migrants in the EU ever catch a break, and why is the...

As the EU top jobs begin to get filled, what kind of Europe will emerge? Depending on who you ask, the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen...

Published yesterday, the KidsRights Foundation published its annual ranking which measures how far children’s rights are safeguarded across the world.

Out of the ten highest-scoring countries,...

Euphoria swept through Georgia last December when the country was officially recognised as an EU member candidate – something Georgians overwhelmingly longed for.

But this enthusiasm...

Raids, interrogations, arrests and record prison sentences. These are the increasingly heavy handed tactics used against environmental campaigners across Europe.

But meanwhile, traffic disruption, border blockades...

35 years after Italy shut down its last nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni plans to bring back nuclear reactors to...

“I’m supposed to be dead”. These were the words of former US president Donald Trump after an assassination attempt at a rally...

What political weeks these have been: snap general elections in France, another snap general election in the UK, the top job at the EU institutions up...

More than thirty asylum seekers have been stranded in the buffer zone that divides Cyprus. They can’t go back, and the government won’t let them in....

‘Remember Srebrenica’. You can find these two words tagged on walls in different cities across Bosnia Herzegovina, accompanied by a number: 8 732 ; the number...

Legally speaking, Croatian women have the right to get an abortion. But why do so many cross the border to Slovenia to find the medical care...

As visitors enjoyed their meals in Las Ramblas, one of the most touristy areas in Barcelona, they were sprayed with water pistols by locals who were...

As pundits and polls predicted the far-right National Rally would become the first party in the French Assembly, the second round of the legislative elections yielded...

The Greek government has just announced that starting next week, some private sector industries will move to a 48-hour work-week, – meaning a 6-day work-week! This...

This week, the King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander swore in Dick Schoof as PM along with his newly formed cabinet while civilians protested outside the palace...

Even the ruling Conservative Party have started conceding defeat a day before the UK general election in which the Labour Party are widely predicted to win.

Make Europe Great Again.

That’s the slogan of the Hungarian government for their presidency of the Council of the European Union, which they take over this...

Since May, pro-independence protests have rocked France’s overseas territory of New Caledonia. With a storied history of resistance and activism, the indigenous Kanak people are fighting...

Who watches the watchmen? This question about the abuse of power, dating back to Roman times, is relevant today after fresh allegations of rights violations by...

With presidential, referendum, and European and parliamentary elections, 2024 is a busy political year for Lithuanians. Yet, the debate mainly focuses on Russia rather than domestic...

Malta’s GDP is booming, surpassing the EU average, yet Maltese households find their purchasing power lower than pre-pandemic levels. Why is this happening, and what does...

Central London erupted over the weekend as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets to call for climate and nature action to be prioritised...

Thousands of French feminists took to the streets last weekend to protest the “feminist facade” of Le Pen’s National Rally. In recent years, Le Pen and...

Give the EU back one billion euros. That’s the demand from the European Anti-Fraud Agency. The amount is misused taxpayer money the agency, also known as OLAF, says...

As Europe confronts war in Ukraine, its Mediterranean border is looking increasingly fragile as Lebanese militant group Hezbollah threatens Cyprus over its role in the wider...

In Finland, a shocking number of municipal housing units are vacant — some for over a year. All the while, approximately 10’ooo applicants wait to hear...

A new report released by the the German Reporting and Information Centre on Anti-Roma sentiment, or MIA, shows that discrimination against Roma people is on the...

Over the past year, Irish libraries have been faced with far-right protests at their doorsteps. One of the reasons they are being targeted is for holding...

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is fondly remembered as the “Sommermärchen,” or summer fairy-tale: marked by a growing economy in a peaceful continent, with Angela...

The Klimaseniorinnen, a climate activism movement made up of women over the age of 65, took Switzerland to court over the government’s violation of the right...

While 27 countries across the continent were voting in the European elections, 9 of them were also voting in local elections. Today, we’re taking a look...