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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 account has been frozen. No warning, no clear explanation. In...
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Europe’s 10 Catholic Processions on Good Friday
Good Friday, 3 April 2026, is one of the most solemn days in the Catholic calendar, and across Europe it is marked not only inside churches but also in the...
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EU Vitamin Caps Must Protect Public Health—Not Deepen Europe’s Deficiency Crisis
ANH Europe warns that excessively low limits on vitamins and minerals could make widespread micronutrient shortfalls harder to address AMSTERDAM, 2 April 2026 — As pressure grows on the European Commission...
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At Brussels’ EU science fair, children sketch new inventions and eavesdrop on bacteria
A lecture hall explodes with sound as the electronic dance hit I Like to Move It by Reel 2 Real blasts through the speakers. A class of 11-year-olds in fluorescent...
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Europe’s FoRB Envoys: Few Posts, Many Offices
As of 27 March 2026, Europe still has only a limited number of clearly named freedom of religion or belief envoys, commissioners or special representatives. Across the European Union, most...
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Iran War Escalates as Europe Seeks Common Line
Fresh Israeli strikes on Iran on Friday have pushed the Middle East war back to the centre of the global news cycle, but for Europe the story is not only...
![[Press Release] COMECE congratulates Mairead McGuinness on appointment as EU Special Envoy for FoRB](https://i2.wp.com/www.comece.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/Mairead-McGuinness-comece-rethinking-europe-2017-400x267.png?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1 "[Press Release] COMECE congratulates Mairead McGuinness on appointment as EU Special Envoy for FoRB")
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[Press Release] COMECE congratulates Mairead McGuinness on appointment as EU Special Envoy for FoRB
Mairead McGuinness during Rethinking Europe in 2017. (Photo: COMECE) PRESS RELEASE // COMECE // The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) congratulates Mairead McGuinness on her...
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Habemus an EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief! After 480 Days!
Breaking News! White smoke for Mairead McGuinness. - Human Rights Without Frontiers hails this appointment Human Rights Without Frontiers // PRESS RELEASE // This Thursday 26 March at lunch-time, the...
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EU Uses UN Day to Renew Anti-Slavery Pledge
Marking the International Day for Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the European Union used the UN General Assembly platform on 25 March to pair...
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EU Nears FoRB Envoy Pick After Long Vacancy
Mairead McGuinness is reportedly set to become the European Union’s next Special Envoy on freedom of religion or belief, ending a politically awkward vacancy that, over the past year, drew...