On 11th October 2021, after holding consultations with all parties in parliament, President Klaus Iohannis proposed the leader of the centre-right Save Romania Union (USR, formerly USR Plus), Dacian Ciolos, as a candidate to form a new government.

Dutch MEP Paul Tang, Karolina Iwanska of the Panoptykon Foundation and Eva Simon from Liberties join Speechbag to detail the continuing abuse of internet users’ personal information by Big Tech.

Lithuania has experienced a steady rise in COVID-19 infections since July 2021 and is ranking 1st in the European Union in terms of a 14-day case notification rate per 100,000 inhabitants in mid-October 2021.

What does independent journalism mean, and what’s happened to it in the last few years? Here’s why it’s so important to democracy and needs protecting.

COVID-19 tracing apps in Europe did not become mass surveillance tools. Nevertheless, governments gave too much power to Big Tech and too little agency to citizens.

​Following the undemocratic elections in Belarus and in the face of growing tensions between Belarus and the European Union, Belarusian authorities have responded to EU sanctions by increasing the flow of migrants crossing the EU-Belarus border.

Until recently, Lithuania had been one of the few EU countries that had not yet criminalized stalking.

On 7th October 2021, the government controlled Constitutional Tribunal ruled that the Polish constitution trumps EU law, sparking concerns of a “Polexit” (Poland's exit from the EU).

The Commission must speak out on the legality and necessity of budget conditionality and take immediate action to enforce the Regulation, as urged by the Parliament.

Yes, our right to free speech absolutely exists online. But there is serious debate about how to regulate our freedom of speech in the online sphere, particularly on social media.