Europe Human Rights Violations Under Scrutiny
Europe human rights violations are testing courts, governments and EU credibility - from asylum abuses to surveillance and attacks on civic freedoms.
Europe’s Weekly Soundtrack: Eurovision Echoes Across Europe
This week, Europe’s musical conversation is still orbiting Vienna. Bulgaria’s first-ever Eurovision victory has turned DARA’s “Bangaranga” into the continent’s defining pop…
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Europe Sanctions Analysis: What Actually Works?
Europe sanctions analysis on what works, what fails and why enforcement, rights safeguards and political unity matter across EU foreign policy.
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Pope Leo XIV Creates AI Working Group and Prepares First Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence
Pope Leo XIV has created a Vatican working group on artificial intelligence and will present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May…
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Europe medicine shortages: what is going wrong?
Europe medicine shortages are exposing fragile supply chains, weak coordination and rising patient risk across the EU and UK healthcare systems.
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Europe
Natural Health in Europe: What It Really Means Today
Natural health is becoming one of Europe’s most important public conversations. But the term is often misunderstood. It can refer to healthy eating, exercise, sleep, herbal medicine, supplements, stress reduction, prevention, or…
From Hollywood glamour to the cassock: Millionaire gives away his fortune and becomes a priest
American entrepreneur and millionaire Scott-Vincent Borba, one of the well-known names in Hollywood, has decided to give up his fortune to devote himself to religion. The…
News
More News newsWhy EU Institutional Accountability Matters
EU institutional accountability shapes rights, spending and power across Europe. Here is where scrutiny works, where it fails, and why…
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Freedom of Religion in South Asia Under Pressure
Freedom of religion in South Asia faces legal curbs, mob violence and political pressure, with serious regional and European human-rights…
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Economy
More Economy newsEU: Hermes Study Centre Supports Cyprus Compromise on Tobacco Excise Revision
The EU and Hermes Study Centre Support the Cyprus Compromise on the Revision of Tobacco Excise Duties Through a Position…
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Increased import of personnel in Bulgaria: Issuing visas will take only 3 days for seasonal workers
Bulgaria opens doors to foreign workers under pressure from business and Brussels The Bulgarian labor market is facing an acute personnel crisis, which is forcing employers to import…
Human Rights
More Human Rights news“I Am Not Afraid of the Truth”: An Interview with Konstantin Rudnev from Rawson Prison
Written by Marco Respinti
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URI Europe Regional Assembly, “Sacred Earth, Shared Humanity” and the presentation of the PARTESS-COM project
By BRIDGES team During the URI Europe Regional Assembly, “Sacred Earth, Shared Humanity: URI Europe Responses to Violence and Harm,” held from…
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Bangladesh genocide of 1971 meets the legal definition, and it is past time for the UN to name it
The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh is one of the most brutal, and yet most under‑recognised, mass atrocities of the twentieth century. More than five decades on, the international…
Politics
More Politics newsWhat to Do If Your Landlord Refuses to Return Your Deposit in Europe
The keys are back. The room is empty. You have cleaned the flat, sent your new address, and waited for…
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Patriarch Daniil attends the swearing-in of the new Bulgarian government
His Holiness Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil was present in the National Assembly during the voting and swearing-in of the new, 107th,…
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Russia sees Satanism in Eurovision
People are living in the times of witch burnings, but there's nothing we can do about it if they like it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has found…
Religion
More Religion newsRomania marked national day of remembrance for communist prison martyrs
On May 14, Romania marked the National Day of Tribute to Communist Prison Martyrs in memory of the thousands of…
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Thirty Years, Millions Spent, No Overthrow: The Scientology Story Tagesschau Refused to Tell
Germany’s public broadcaster reported the end of federal surveillance, but preserved the very stigma that decades of intelligence monitoring helped…
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From Hollywood glamour to the cassock: Millionaire gives away his fortune and becomes a priest
American entrepreneur and millionaire Scott-Vincent Borba, one of the well-known names in Hollywood, has decided to give up his fortune to devote himself to religion. The news of…
Society
More Society newsReproducing Society, Securing the Economy – Social Reproduction in Practice
Series - Hidden from the Economy
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Who Cares (for My Niece and My Grandfather)?
Series - Hidden from the Economy
What to Do If… in Europe
More What to Do If… in Europe newsWhat to Do If Your Employer Doesn’t Pay You in Europe
The payslip arrives — but the money does not. Days pass, then weeks. Rent is due, bills are stacking up,…
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What to Do If Your Bank Account Is Frozen in Europe
You try to pay for groceries or rent — and your card is declined. You check your banking app: your…
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What to Do If You Lose Your Passport in Europe
You reach for your passport — and it’s gone. Maybe it slipped out of your bag, maybe it was stolen, or maybe you simply left it behind. Whatever…
