“Only Yes Means Yes” Law Approved in Spain
Trigger warning: RapeSex without consent is rape. Yet, according to the NGO, Amnesty International, in Europe, only 13 countries, feature laws, that define rape, in terms of the absence of consent. Th...
8 Sep 202223min
Teachers Protest in Hungary
In the past months, teachers in Hungary have been on strike, protesting against a public educational system which, as they say, risks collapse. What teachers complain about is low pay and deterioratin...
1 Sep 202225min
Resistance Against Data Centers in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is one of the top data center markets in Europe, hosting approximately 200 facilities such as Google and Microsoft hyperscale data centers which exceed 5,000 servers and 3,000 square k...
24 Aug 202226min
One of the Worst Cases of Gentrification
The housing crisis in Lisbon is caused by one of the worst cases of rapid, violent gentrification. Lured by programs to attract foreign investment, new real estate developments and tourist accommodati...
17 Aug 202223min
Depopulation is Causing Wildfires in Europe
As Europe is seeing intense and unprecedented heatwaves, with temperatures spiking above 40 degrees, huge wildfires are raging across several countries in the region. Thousands of hectares of land wer...
10 Aug 202225min
Greece Criminalizes the Work of NGOs
During the month of June, Mary Lawlor, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, went on a 10-day long mission to Greece. At the end of her mission, in a preliminary observations and recommendation...
4 Aug 202224min
Biggest Dutch Farmers Protests in Decades
Over the past few weeks, Dutch farmers have been taking to the streets of their country. They are in revolt against their government's plan to reduce the emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia by cut...
28 Juli 202226min
