Category: Society

Editor's choice

Brigitte Bardot, Film Icon and Activist, Dies at 91

Brigitte Bardot—the French screen legend whose early stardom helped define a new era of European cinema, and whose later life became inseparable from animal-rights campaigning—has died aged 91. She passed…

8 January 2026 · 3 min read

Editor's choice

Brussels’ Drug Consumption Rooms: A Dangerous Surrender to Addiction

As Brussels expands its network of supervised drug consumption rooms—known euphemistically as "safe injection sites"—the city risks entrenching a failed policy that prioritizes harm management over true recovery, mirroring disastrous…

28 December 2025 · 3 min read

FORB

Religious Equality in Spain: Why Cooperation Still Stalls

At ICAM, Martínez-Torrón explained why Spain stopped signing new religious agreements—and what that means for equality, funding, and rights. At a commemorative session marking the seventh anniversary of the Canon…

27 December 2025 · 5 min read

Editor's choice

Christmas in Europe: Traditions, Origins and 2025 News

Across the continent, one holiday carries many languages, calendars, and meanings. From candlelit church services to winter swims and family feasts that stretch into early January, Christmas in Europe is…

26 December 2025 · 6 min read

Europe

Hungary truckers vow to continue toll protests

Budapest | 23 December 2025 - Hungarian lorry drivers have kept up slow-moving convoys in and around Budapest to protest planned road-toll increases for 2026. Organisers say they will not…

23 December 2025 · 3 min read