Greece targets demographic crisis with band-aid tax relief
Greece has announced a sweeping €1.6 billion tax reform aimed at tackling what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls one of the country’s greatest threats, the demographic crisis. But are these mea...
8 Sep 20255min
Putin warns foreign troops in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate target’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned today, Friday, that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine before a peace agreement is signed would be treated as “legitimate targets” by Moscow’s forces. T...
5 Sep 20254min
Lisbon’s funicular tragedy brings back ignored workers’ safety warnings
On Wednesday evening, Lisbon’s historic Glória funicular derailed on its route between Restauradores Square and the Bairro Alto climb in the city centre. The yellow-and-white tram came off the tracks,...
4 Sep 20254min
Fico, Putin and the EU: an ‘independent’ foreign policy?
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is once again in the spotlight for his closeness to Moscow. Yesterday, Tuesday, he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing where the Russian leader praise...
3 Sep 20254min
Belgium to recognise Palestine at the UN and sanction Israel
Belgium’s Foreign Minister, Maxime Prévot, announced overnight that the country will recognise the state of Palestine during the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York. But the move comes wi...
2 Sep 20255min
Von der Leyen’s “precise plans” for Ukraine’s security
European capitals are preparing “pretty precise plans” for a multinational troop deployment to Ukraine, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to the Financial Times. The plan will be...
1 Sep 20254min
Italy’s digital misogyny: website finally taken down
An explicit content website in Italy called Phica, a misspelt slang for female genitalia, was finally shut down on Thursday after it was circulating photos of women without their consent.Among those t...
29 Aug 20254min
Denmark and Greenland apologise for forced contraception of Indigenous women
Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland apologised officially this Wednesday for the roles of their countries in the historic mistreatment...
28 Aug 20254min
