Category: 3. Europe

The data that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has collected and presented in its newly released progress report shows a concerning picture. While progress has been made in reducing new HIV and TB infections, the current pace is insufficient to meet the 2030 targets….

Cities also control powerful economic levers. Strategic procurement can shape markets, drive clean-tech adoption and support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For example, Oslo mandates zero-emission construction in public projects, and five years on, 77 percent of municipal…

“It’s no secret that I would like to see an ambitious regulation on child sexual abuse,” Hummelgaard said. 

The EU won’t stop there. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, this month unveiled a new internal security…

Jannik Hartmann, a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, confirmed that a U.S. pullback — from Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, for instance — would leave Europe without basic loading gear like ramps and flatbed wagons. Europe also has few forward stockpiles of military hardware,…

This is not an isolated act. Rather, it’s part of a broader authoritarian playbook — one that treats democracy, civil society and free speech as threats to be neutralized. For example, just last week, the regime also amended the constitution — for the 15th time in just as many years —…

One said the atmosphere in the Lords is now “very divided and quite heated,” and the prospect of “converting” some peers “would take a lot of heat out of the future of the hereditaries’ bill, not to mention the rest of the passage of legislation.” 

Conservative peers argue…

“I initially hesitated to join the FIDE presidential campaign, but seeing the deep ties between chess and politics, and inspired by my wife’s insights on Ukraine and Lithuania’s role, I felt it was my duty to stand up for transparency and integrity in the chess world,” he said.

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