The French Constitutional Council has ruled that using bone tests to estimate the age of young migrants is constitutional. These controversial examinations are known to have a significant margin of error. This case...

The former prime minister of Slovakia and current leader of the country's Smer party has used his bully pulpit to once again disparage independent journalists. Robert Fico, who left office in the aftermath of the...

When the Cambridge Analytica revelations became a global scandal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated at the time that Facebook learned of the data sharing in 2015, and from the media. But, according to new revelations,...

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After agonising over its relations with Hungarian member party Fidesz, on Wednesday evening in Brussels the European People’s Party agreed to suspend the membership of Viktor Orbán’s party. The EPP will send an...

Following last week's deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left 50 people dead, the country’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing...

New evidence has come to light in the trial of the five Carabinieri accused of killing Stefano Cucchi, who died of his injuries while hospitalised in jail in Rome.

The European People’s Party suspended Hungary’s Fidesz party before one bad apple could spoil the bunch.

In 2018, former Lithuanian MP K. Pūkas was accused of improperly possessing weapons and sexually harassing women who applied to work as his assistant. The women claimed that during their job interviews Pūkas made...

Germany and Belgium have agreed on a new democracy mechanism designed to improve the EU's defenses against nationalist, anti-values governments. The proposal, outlined at a meeting of EU ministers on 19 March, would...