This is the third instalment in a four-part blog series documenting EFF’s work in Europe. You can read additional posts here:
EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world….
Category: 3. Europe
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Saving the Internet in Europe: Defending Privacy and Fighting Surveillance
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Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers | Life expectancy
Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.
The average annual growth in life expectancy…
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60 Minutes and Vice President Vance put Europe’s worrying speech restrictions into the spotlight
Free speech in Europe is under debate at the moment, and for good reason. For anyone who is concerned about the preservation of free expression on a global scale, the restrictions on speech — including online speech — in…
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The Canada-EU Leaders’ Meeting: A New Era of Cooperation?
The Canada-EU Leaders’ meeting took place on February 12, 2025. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa met to discuss ways for EU and…
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Europe — Stop Hitting Snooze and Wake Up
The continent’s defense, technological and industrial capacity should be strengthened quickly using the leverage of the European Union’s regulatory power and its enormous market. To drive this, governments will need to increase…
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Vance Munich Speech: Read Full Transcript
European leaders are reeling from a weekend of high-level diplomacy that has laid bare just how dramatically the second Trump administration is overhauling transatlantic relations.
Even before the reelection of U.S. President Donald Trump,…
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Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised | Migration
The rise of the far-right could speed up the population decline of Europe, projections show, creating economic shocks including slower growth and soaring costs from pensions and elderly care.
Anti-immigration politics is on the rise across the EU,…
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European countries clash over sending troops to Ukraine
European countries clashed over sending troops to Ukraine at a crisis meeting intended to reach a consensus on how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s peace talks with Russia.
As leaders convened in Paris for the summit on Monday…
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China aims to improve ties with EU amid transatlantic tension
Taipei, Taiwan —China has launched a new round of diplomatic outreach to European countries amid rising tension between the United States and its European allies.
While top U.S. officials and European leaders clashed over issues…
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Call for Europe’s army is a sign of a continent in flux
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for raising an “armed forces of Europe” is an acknowledgment that the continent may no longer be the beneficiary of security guarantees provided by the United States (US) since the end of World…
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