Category: EU Reporter

The phones were closed when the suspected 22-year-old perpetrator behind Sunday’s shooting in Copenhagen called the Danish Mental Health Fund’s crisis line shortly before he killed three people and seriously injured several others with a rifle in a shopping center. The opening hours in the private organisation had changed due to summer holidays, Danish public […]

The increasingly sharp debate over the rising cost of living exploded in European Parliament, with lawmakers from all stripes, liberal, left, green and conservative, calling on the EU to act.

“France has today undertaken the return to the country of 35 French minors who were in camps in northeast Syria. This operation also includes the return of 16 mothers from these same camps,” the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Western governments have generally resisted repatriations from Syria, citing security issues.

The European Parliament has adopted two flagship policies aimed at enacting consumer rights and transparency of online platforms — despite concerns from digital advocates, human rights defenders and some MEPs.

UN human rights council says push backs in Greece have become de facto general policy. Reporters without Borders says press freedoms in Greece are among the worst in Europe. Greece’s PM refutes both to MEPs in Strasbourg.

Some modest headway in recognising the unrelenting tide of discrimination and violence facing women worldwide was made at last week’s largely self-congratulatory and mostly irrelevant G7 talk-fest. But no one mentioned abortion, just days after the Roe vs Wade decision.

Scotland’s highest legal authority, lord advocate Dorothy Bain, has said it may well be unlawful for first minister Nicola Sturgeon to call a second independence referendum without London’s blessing. “In the present case, the lord advocate does not have the necessary degree of confidence [of the legality of the move], Bain said in a letter […]

British prime minister Boris Johnson has been weakened after his chancellor and health secretary resigned in complaints about Johnson’s dishonesty. Both men — Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid — are seen as potential Conservative Party leadership contenders. The anti-Johnson rebellion comes after he lied about a fellow minister’s track record of sexual misbehaviour as well […]

Satellite images obtained by Finnish public broadcaster Yle have revealed that much of the military equipment at Russia’s Alakurtti military base near the Finnish border has been removed. “It’s very likely they were transported by train to Ukraine,” military expert Marko Eklund estimated. Since mid-May, more than 100 vehicles have departed from Alakurtti, enough to […]

The euro on Tuesday dropped to its lowest level since 2002 as traders fearing a potential recession rushed into the safety of the dollar. “People want dollars in times of stress and anxiety,” said Jane Foley, head of FX strategy at Rabobank, to the FT. Amid growing energy and food prices inflation in the euro […]