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Centre-left MEPs are trying to convince the European Commission to withdraw its proposal to pause EU methane rules, if parliament or member states try to delay them for more than one year.
Word onze nieuwe Fondsenwerver Loyaliteit & Waardevermeerdering: zorg dat donateurs zich gezien, gehoord en gewaardeerd voelen, en laat hun steun groeien.
I survived an Israeli strike on 13 October 2023 with one leg missing, while my friend and colleague Issam was killed. Yet three years later, no one has been held accountable. I am asking the EU to turn its commitments to protecting journalists into concrete action: demand answers from Israel and use its leverage to ensure that those responsible face justice.
TI-NL: corruptie bij cardiologen mogelijk signaal breder probleem met medische geldstromen. Roept op tot meer zorgtransparantie.
The United States has imposed new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, this time targeting the institution itself. The EU, while supportive of the ICC, does little to counter the sanctions.
In a poll of 25,080 adults across 25 EU member states, 75 percent of Europeans indicated support for a hen-cage ban by 2035.
Employers are reporting skills bottlenecks because CVs and qualifications often fail to capture skills they are looking for. Europe needs bridges between education and employment.
Wat als de stroom die je buren opwekken met hun zonnepanelen ook jouw energierekening kan verlagen? En wat als je met de opbrengsten samen een moestuin of speeltuin kunt aanleggen? Energie delen met de hele buurt: in de Tilburgse wijk Jeruzalem werken bewoners, woningcorporatie Tiwos en Stichting Oranje Advies 2051 aan een plan om dat
With one in five adults worldwide hit by disasters in the past five years, millions of people in Greece and France could be dangerously exposed when the next natural or man-made crisis strikes.
Wij willen graag controleren of de Artikel-12 procedure goed functioneert. Het is de enige manier van burgers om vervolging af te dwingen, maar het Openbaar Ministerie houdt dit niet bij.
MEPs and the champions of EU integration point to the parliament’s co-decision powers as proof of the institution’s importance. But will MEPs dare use those powers in a budget fight with governments?
Some 23 percent of Spain’s working population were immigrants, who were “paying taxes and [contributing to] pensions for everyone," said the MEP, ahead of a snap election dominated by its housing crisis and the Ceuta migrant crisis.
Western spymasters may finally be testing Kremlin-style information tricks on Russian soil to rattle Putin’s war regime.
Drones are now deciding who survives on the battlefield — and even which side's maps or propaganda can still be believed.
De coronapandemie was een onvrijwillig experiment voor zakelijke vliegers en bewees onomstotelijk dat internationale samenwerking uitstekend gedijt zonder constant een toestel in te stappen. Welke bedrijven hebben deze klimaatwinst structureel verankerd en wie valt terug in oude, vervuilende patronen? Bron
De pijnlijke tegenstelling tussen op winst belust Amerika en gepassioneerde jongeren.
Na de bekroonde voorstellingen 'De zaak Shell', 'Beste Mensen' en 'Een stukje naar de mensen toe' gaan Bureau Vergezicht en Romana Vrede op zoek naar het antwoord op de vraag: hoe blijf je erbij in duistere tijden? En daarvoor kijken ze niet alleen vooruit, maar ook naar het moment dat alles nog mogelijk leek.
Met haar sancties tegen het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) probeert de Amerikaanse regering elk vooruitzicht op gerechtigheid voor daders van ernstige misdrijven volgens het internationaal recht teniet te doen, stelt Amnesty International. Staten moeten alle mogelijke maatregelen nemen om zich tegen deze aanval te verzetten en het Hof actief te beschermen. “De sancties van president Trump zijn
The American humorist Will Rogers observed that there are three kinds of people in this world: those who learn by reading; those who learn by observation; and the rest, who have to learn by peeing on the electric fence for themselves.
European gas storage levels are unusually low for this time of year, reaching their lowest autumn level since 2011. With Russian gas imports set to end in 2027, could Europe face a tougher challenge in the months ahead?
As one of Dayton’s former guardians, Schmidt fears less instability than a quiet collapse of trust, as youth reject segregated schools, politicians glorify war criminals, and Europe fails to turn Bosnia’s pro-EU mood into real opportunities.
The EU’s picture of rule-of-law improvements is rosy, but civil liberties groups were not fooled. A new analysis reveals the commission’s recommendations to have been adopted 4 times out of 100, while most remain ignored.
Klimaatverandering, biodiversiteitsverlies en de schadelijke impact van ons voedsel raken steeds meer Amsterdammers. Bewoners willen wel in actie komen, maar weten vaak niet hoe. De Gezonde Stad biedt bewoners op een positieve en pakkende manier handelingsperspectief om zelf bij te dragen aan een groene, gezonde en veerkrachtige stad. Op MaatschapWij deelt De Gezonde Stad tips en inspirerende verhalen van groene doeners in Amsterdam. Dit keer: permacultuurtuin Bajestuin.
Money and how to make more of it are among the top issues to be discussed among EU leaders as they gather for a two-day summit in Brussels, while they also struggle with ongoing problems on Ukraine, the Middle East, migration, defence, and new rules for EU-hopefuls, such as Montenegro.
Het is misschien het best bewaarde geheim van Amsterdam: achter het Olympisch stadion en de sportvelden, midden in het groen, liggen zo’n 15 steigers met aan weerszijden woonarken en woonboten. Sinds kort ligt hier de duurzame woonark van architect Anton Surink en zijn partner Jochem. “Hier wonen is de ideale combinatie van stad en natuur,”
The Irish government has set the path for a showdown between MEPs and governments over the next seven year EU budget after proposing an 8 percent cut worth €141bn to the European Commission’s spending plan.
EU leaders will stay mute on Gaza and merely “condemn” West Bank violence at next week’s summit, as the 2026 Nobel peace prize highlights UN findings on Israel’s “genocide”.
Het Omgevingsfonds Schiphol is bedoeld als goedmakertje voor een regio die al decennialang gebukt gaat onder overmaats vliegverkeer. Jaarlijks zou er tien miljoen euro beschikbaar komen, maar uit het jaarverslag blijkt dat er in 2025 nog geen 4 miljoen euro is uitgekeerd. Bron
By treating digital attacks on Belarusian and Russian exiles as a systemic risk under the DSA, the EU could reshape how global platforms handle online transnational repression.
Professor Jan Rovný argues French school protests could turn into a movment against spending cuts by a government with growing debt. He explains why private school pupils have joined publicly educated peers revolting on the streets, and how police violence will shape public mood.
Het kabinet verkoopt het nieuwe CO₂-plafond voor Schiphol en Lelystad als bewijs dat luchtvaart eindelijk binnen klimaatgrenzen wordt gebracht. Maar uit een ingetrokken NLR-rapport blijkt dat het klimaatdoel afhangt van uiterst krappe marges en onzekere aannames. Bron
Vanadium businesses owned by UAE-based entity appear to be linked with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. This has prompted complaints to police about the circumventing of sanctions.
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with ICE, and then attempted data-driven
Members of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly backed another term for Shawn Fain and his United UAW slate of union candidates, showing support for his vision of a fighting labor movement.
EFF was thrilled to join organizers, advocates, and activists in the East Bay for the second annual Oakland Tech Week last week. We are grateful to our friends at MediaJustice and Upturn for inviting us co-present this all-day event, “Building Beyond Big Tech: Organizing Oakland’s Future”, on Sept. 30. The event, hosted by the Kapor Center in downtown Oakland, offered a unique chance to spend time with people across The Town and the Bay Area working to create a better future for everyone.
EU and Chinese officials agreed a series of trade concessions covering electric cars, rare earths and tariffs that dragged them away from a damaging trade war on Friday (9 October), following two days of crisis talks.
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, a gold-covered statue of a naked Trump in the halls of European Parliament is meant to make politicians think about democracy, says 'Orange Plague' artist Jens Galschiøt.
EFF strongly condemns Turkey’s state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country. Since mid-September, access to the websites and social media accounts of a dozen organizations
The European Commission has added 46 projects to its list of critical raw materials investments, but its own figures show little EU money has reached similar schemes it selected last year.
While Rybar’s pro-war editors complain of tightening fronts near Sloviansk, Komar and Dobropillia, independent maps and Ukrainian sources show Moscow’s forces clawing back exaggerated gains as Kyiv tests ambitious advances on the ground and in Russia’s digital backbone.
In het eerste jaar na het staakt-het-vuren-akkoord in Gaza hebben Israëlische troepen meer dan 1.400 mensen gedood. Bijna twee miljoen mensen zijn nog altijd verstoken van onderdak, geen enkel ziekenhuis functioneert volledig en 1,4 miljoen mensen verkeren in een voedselcrisis. Het staakt-het-vuren in Gaza, dat een jaar geleden werd overeengekomen, bestaat alleen op papier. Dit
PAX feliciteert oud-VN-mensenrechtenchef en oud-rechter van het Internationaal Strafhof Navanethem Pillay met de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede.
We roepen de regering op: de volgende EU-begroting moet investeren in vrede, samenwerking en een sterke internationale rechtsorde. Niet alleen in wapens
As pesticide lobbyists dominate a key hearing in Strasbourg, the EU risks locking farmers and citizens into a costly, chemical-dependent food system that poisons water, fuels disease and drains billions in EU subsidies away from real sustainable farming.
Spain is heading for early elections, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap vote last week. According to current polls, the conservative People's Party, or PP, is ahead of Sánchez's Socialists, while Vox is also making significant gains. What would happen if they governed together?
Internal documents show how a top Orbán-era rail contractor showered Megafon influencers with billions of forints.
‘Groene groei’ is gewoon een lulsmoes in een leuke jurk, schrijft taalcolumnist Asha ten Broeke.
Campaigners have warned that stringent requirements to adapt games to children by default would prompt the extinction of small games and make costs spiral for developers.
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Environmental NGOs have threatened to sue the owner of Tefal, a leading French kitchenware company, over failing to phase out forever chemicals from their products, at a high price for consumer health.
“Van goede voeding hoor je lekker in je vel te gaan zitten, maar in onze moderne diëten dient eten steeds vaker als troost, niet als brandstof. Een suikertax lost dat niet op”, aldus Sophie de Jong. “De diepste doelstelling van een duurzaam voedingsbeleid is niet het terugdringen van suikerconsumptie. Het is het herstellen van een relatie: die tussen mensen en haar leefomgeving.“
This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a doctorate student and recent COMPASS Fellow hosted by EFF.Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question.
De Maatschappelijke Raad Schiphol zoekt een nieuwe secretaris-directeur. Uit de vacaturetekst blijkt dat het adviesorgaan vooral op zoek is naar een bestuurder die kan verbinden, participatieprocessen kan begeleiden en kan opereren in een omgeving met tegengestelde belangen. Bron
A memorial to victims of 7 October in Israel, which made no mention of Palestinian casualties, ended in tumbling flags, anger, and grief.
Een groeiend aantal landen binnen de Associatie van Zuidoost-Aziatische Staten (ASEAN) zet positieve stappen om het gebruik van de doodstraf te beperken. Dat is goed nieuws in een regio waar de doodstraf van oudsher veel wordt opgelegd. Dat stelt Amnesty International in aanloop naar de Werelddag tegen de Doodstraf op 10 oktober. De afgelopen 20
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EU governments were allowed to water down targets in their post-Covid pandemic recovery plans after they had already asked Brussels for the money, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said on Thursday (8 October).
Persuading China that its €1bn daily trade surplus with the EU is not sustainable was always going to be a hard sell for EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič.
The European Commission has joined the WHO and US in calling on Russia to share information on the sudden death of a lab technician in a bio-research facility. But the Kremlin has said there is nothing to see.
Witnesses describe an occupied town where a hospital director feeds only pro-Russian loyalists, others boil weeds or eat dogs to survive, and Russian troops punish anyone caught accepting Ukrainian aid dropped in by drone.
Het is je waarschijnlijk niet ontgaan: in Utrecht zijn we bezig met iets groots. Steeds meer mensen willen iets doen voor een leefbare toekomst, maar acties worden pas echt krachtig als we het samen doen. Want één ding weten we zeker: van mensen die zich organiseren en samen in actie komen, worden grote vervuilers als ING pas écht zenuwachtig.
The 19 June incident saw the Libyans once again attacking people fleeing the country on boats after having first been informed of their location by Frontex, an EU agency based in Warsaw.
In 2025 verscheen een belangrijk onderzoek van het WODC over het demonstratierecht in Nederland. De conclusie is een grote opsteker voor iedereen die actie voert voor het klimaat of tegen de overlast van de luchtvaart: de regels hoeven niet strenger. Bron
De wereld staat in brand. Daarom doe jij je best voor het klimaat. Maar grote vervuilers doen niet mee. En de politiek laat het afweten. Daar hebben we geen tijd meer voor. Sluit je aan, want samen krijgen we ze wel in beweging. We kunnen niet wachten.
De afgelopen maanden zijn de Russische aanvallen op Oekraïne verder geïntensiveerd. De hoofdstad wordt vrijwel dagelijks aangevallen. Het gevaar voor burgers neemt toe.
Two-weeks long protests by French high-school students demanding better education conditions risk getting more heated due the French government’s lack of response.
An annual conference on foreign information manipulation opened in Vilnius this week with a sensitive question on its agenda: Can the United States be considered a threat to Europe’s information space?
As new evidence emerges of Moroccan spying on Sahrawi activists, including in Europe, European governments continue to deepen their security ties with Rabat without seriously questioning how those capabilities are being used.
As national leaders call for massive cuts in the next EU budget, the parliament’s budget chiefs, MEP Siegfried Mureşan and Carla Tavares, warn that slashing EU cash now will undercut Europe’s competitiveness, security and social safety net for years to come.
Production: By Europod, in co-production with Sphera Network. EUobserver is proud to have an editorial partnership with Europod to co-publish the podcast series “Briefed” hosted by Léa Marchal. The podcast is available on all major platforms. Find the full transcript below: France has been seeing growing protests by high school and university students in recent weeks. The movement is
Small electrical firms best placed to drive Germany's industrial renewal rely on China as their main supplier, competitor and sometimes customer, leaving Berlin with a dilemma: the fastest way to scale them up is with the very Chinese components it wants to reduce reliance on.
Twelve years ago, EU summit leaders announced they had a strategy to tackle unprecedented migrant arrivals.
As Europeans foot the bill for the Iran war while oil firms' profits surge, the EU Parliament's left hit a commission-shaped brick wall in Strasbourg.
The Alfa Watan, a ship sailing under the flag of Togo, and the Able, a vessel flying the flag of Palau, were targeted by naval and aerial drones on Tuesday (6 October) morning in the Black Sea near the Bulgarian coast.
Wie over vrede wil praten, rolt daarmee niet gelijk de rode loper uit voor de vijand. Vredesonderhandelingen gaan over het bouwen van vertrouwen en over het sluiten van akkoorden met partijen die je in al je vezels wantrouwt. Tegelijk zijn soms ook wapens nodig. Als Oekraïne zich niet kan verdedigen, valt er niets te onderhandelen. Het evenwicht tussen de twee is de enige manier om tot vrede te komen. Dat evenwicht ontbreekt in de Defensienota die momenteel in de Tweede Kamer wordt besproken.
A round-up of this month’s signs we are living in late stage capitalism.
Anonymous commanders paint a picture of an army suddenly trusted to improvise, led by rehabilitated critics and 30‑something officers, while Russia marks Putin’s birthday with mass strikes and a burning oil tanker off Sochi’s coast.
Reacting to an announcement today by France’s Interior Minister that the use of stun grenades in the policing of high school student protests will be temporarily suspended, Anne Savinel-Barras, President of Amnesty International France, said: “While the suspension of the use of these grenades in the policing of the current high school student protests is an
A trawl through 52 sets of summit conclusions reveals how EU leaders keep quietly copy‑pasting calls for tougher returns and externalised border control, while largely sidelining legal migration and resettlement schemes that could save lives.
In Gaza, October 7, 2023, is viewed as the beginning of the genocide. Over the past three years, Israel killed over 74,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, but many believe that number is a vast undercount. The killing continues despite a so-called ceasefire that took effect about a year ago. “Every single aspect of the life of the people of Gaza has changed once and forever,” since October 7, says Akram al-Satarri, a Gaza-based journalist.
Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East: Origins of a Genocide is the new book by Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discussing the crucial 12 days between Benjamin Netanyahu’s October 7 speech and Biden’s “rare” Oval Office speech on October 19. “October 7 was bloody, and it was horrific. … But Netanyahu and his government had to go overboard, to exaggerate, to lie, to deceive about what exactly happened” in order to justify their actions in Gaza, says Bishara. “Genocides don’t start with bombs; they start with ideology.
Israelis and Palestinians are marking three years since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. Nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed, and around 250 were taken hostage. It was the deadliest such attack in Israel’s history, after which Israel immediately began bombing the Gaza Strip, killing at least 5,000 people by October 23, 2023. At least 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon lost both of his parents, who lived on a kibbutz just north of the Gaza border, in the Hamas attack.
Israel Marks Three Years Since the Hamas-Led Surprise Attack on October 7, 2023; Israeli Forces Kill at Least Three Palestinians in Gaza; Houthi Militias Fire Drones and Missiles at the Aden International Airport in Yemen; Democratic Senator Chris Murphy Denied Access to U.S. Air Base in Qatar; More Than 250,000 People March in Student Protests in France; Spain’s Gov’t Approves Two Housing Decrees Rejected by Parliament; Death Row Prisoner Christa Pike Regains Consciousness After Surviving Execution Attempt;
KLM heeft van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur een tijdelijke vrijstelling gekregen voor het gebruik van de gifstof Biobor JF. Het gaat om een bestrijdingsmiddel dat niet regulier is toegelaten op de Nederlandse markt maar nu wel aan vliegtuigbrandstof mag worden toegevoegd. Bron
By sitting down with senior Iranian figures who publicly back the Revolutionary Guard while keeping sanctions limited to technocratic lists, EU governments risk undermining their own leverage at a time of rising regional tensions.
US authorities arrested men who sold a forensic software to government bodies across Europe, hid the tool's true owners and concealed its Russian development.
As AI shifts work from people to machines, it will force a rethink of who gets taxed, on what, and where. Nowhere is that question more urgent than in Europe, which funds the world's most comprehensive welfare states primarily through taxes on work.
Chinese carmakers are gaining more space in the European market, provoking EU debates about competitiveness.
Europe is about to create a form of company that no public authority will be able to check in substance. Speed is not the same as trust. With the European Parliament and the Council finalising their positions, the Notaries of Europe urge legislators to strengthen its safeguards.
“Hoe voelt het als er geen duidelijke orde meer is? Als alles zo complex geworden is dat oplossingen niet makkelijk zijn?”, zo vraagt Marleen Dijkdrent zich af in het kader van haar kunstproject ‘Ecosystem Intelligence’. “In de menselijke wereld voelt chaos als beangstigend, maar in de natuurlijke wereld is chaos heel normaal. Orde en chaos wisselen elkaar voortdurend af. Orde is een door de mens bedachte illusie. Orde/chaos is een code.”
A proposed safeguard to last up to 15 years after EU accession would make it easier to suspend future member states' voting rights if they misbehaved.
Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of Toledo, Ohio residents to discuss the morning of the industrial disaster and life since.
France is no Greece. A full-blown debt crisis is not yet on the cards. But as things stand, a protracted muddling through seems the most likely outcome.
Hungary is starting to address the EU’s concerns over the rule of law and judicial independence, and the EU seems tkeen to quickly resume frozen funding for Budapest.
“I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” the EU Commission chief told MEPs during a speech in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
Will we one day look back at America's giant pickup trucks as a gauche fad that made our streets uglier, roads deadlier and our world worse?
Portuguese prime minister told MEPs that solving the cost of living crisis is key to keeping the far-right out of power, as ultra-nationalist party reaches record popularity at home.
Germany’s former spy chief now stands accused of selling thousands of ultra-sensitive intelligence files to foreign clients, in a scandal insiders warn could cripple Berlin’s trust with allied services.
EU governments continue to authorise arms sales to Israel despite rules and the EU treaties that require them to protect children's rights.
Ondanks een zogenaamd staakt-het-vuren inmiddels een jaar geleden, gaat de genocide in Gaza gewoon door. En wat doet Nederland? Nederland blijft Israël financieren en faciliteren. Dat moet stoppen.
The battle for Kyiv's skies aside, Ukraine’s air raids on Russian oil sites saw it boast that over half of Moscow’s refinery capacity was offline, potentially choking fuel supplies far from the front.
In a victory for environmentalists and immigration rights’ advocates, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has blocked further border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park. “We slammed the brakes on $7 billion worth of corrupt construction contracts,” says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, which sued to block the expansion. “We have effectively stopped construction across West Texas, and it’s incredible.”
We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Health authorities believe the outbreak first began in January but was not detected until May, in part due to cuts in global health investments, like the dismantling of USAID. Since then, over 8,000 cases have been recorded, with more than 4,000 fatalities so far. From Bunia, Ituri province, the epicenter of the outbreak, we speak to Congolese journalist Akilimali Chomachoma.
Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed today amid massive student-led protests over school funding and inequality. The demonstrations began in September at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats, falling debris and more. But the scope of the protests has widened amid a violent crackdown by French police.
Supreme Court Case Will Determine Whether State and Local Governments Can Sue for Climate Harms; Pentagon Says Latest Boat Strike Killed Four Narcotraffickers, Provides No Evidence; Turkey and Pakistan to Send Troops to Saudi Arabia as Yemeni Government Forces Battle Houthis; Trump Defends Decision to Attack Iran, Says “Let Them Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego; Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack on Moscow, Blames Russia for Sinking Ship in Romanian Waters; Kenya Detects First Case of Ebola ;
French authorities must act upon their human rights obligations and stop the disproportionate police response seen in recent days to student protests, Amnesty International said ahead of tomorrow’s planned nationwide demonstrations. “As children and young people prepare to take to the streets across France, authorities must ensure their safety and security and protect and facilitate
Responding to the imposition of prohibitory orders, the detention of hundreds of protesters, and the suspension of internet and public transport services in Delhi and Mumbai amid peaceful protests demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner of India, Aakar Patel, Chair of Board, Amnesty International India, said: “The right to protest is not dependent
De Franse autoriteiten moeten hun mensenrechtenverplichtingen nakomen en een einde maken aan het buitensporig gewelddadige politieoptreden van vandaag bij scholierenprotesten. Dit zegt Amnesty International na een dag vol politiegeweld.
Terwijl het kabinet beweert de gezondheid van omwonenden beter te willen beschermen, blijkt uit de nieuwste Verzamelbrief luchtvaart dat juist wordt gekozen voor een versoepeling van de bouwbeperkingen rond Schiphol. Bron
Een poëtische, aangrijpende film over een manier van leven die met uitsterven wordt bedreigd.
Al tien jaar voeren de ‘Grootouders’ actie voor toekomstbestendig klimaatbeleid.
If Brussels accepts this vague hunt for “Muslim Brotherhood networks”, the same logic could later be turned against almost any vocal minority in Europe.
The EU wants to bring new countries on board faster. But after years of waiting, will the Commission’s new proposals actually make enlargement easier?
Amnesty International en twaalf andere organisaties kondigen een nieuwe massademonstratie in Amsterdam aan. De Nederlandse regering heeft al veel te veel tijd verspild om een rode lijn te trekken tegen Israëls oorlogsmisdaden en illegale bezetting. Sterker nog, Nederland blijft faciliteren en financieren. Dat moet voorbij zijn. Daarom gaan we massaal de straat op: De Rode
Een houten huis bouwen op je eigen kavel én bijna alles zelf doen: Anne Blum (34) en haar partner Sander Grooten (40) gingen ervoor. In Almere Oosterwold bouwen ze samen met vrienden een houten twee-onder-een-kapwoning. Van het vijfhoekige ontwerp met ronde binnenwanden tot de tuin eromheen: ze doen zoveel mogelijk zelf. Het resultaat is een
Having said several months ago that he had no intention of a ‘rerun’ of the Brexit debate, UK prime minister Andy Burnham told Labour delegates at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool last week that nothing should be off the table as far as EU-UK relations are concerned.
If a woman enters politics, she may have to confront the fact that she may be one in 14 being digitally stripped by ‘nudifying’ technology. Such is what an EU ban is trying to stop: but whether it will be implemented in time, according to the Parliament’s greens party, is far from certain.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s election, held on Sunday (4 October), has reinforced the country’s deep ethnic and political divisions, with nationalist parties retaining a strong grip on power and low turnout underscoring voters’ growing disillusionment with a political system that has long frustrated the country’s ambitions to join the European Union.
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez has called snap elections for 29 November, after parliament rejected his housing decrees, giving him a hot-button political issue for his election platform. But polls favour the opposition centre-right People’s Party, which may need the far-right Vox to govern. And the loss of Sánchez would be a big blow for the centre-left in Brussels.
De Iraakse autoriteiten moeten een eerlijk proces garanderen voor de meer dan 5.704 gedetineerden die vanuit Noordoost-Syrië naar Irak zijn overgebracht, bij de rechtszaken die vanaf 5 oktober beginnen. Ook moeten ze zorgen voor de bescherming van de rechten van de gedetineerden die minderjarig zijn, aldus Amnesty International. De mensen die uit Syrië zijn overgebracht
Norwegian activist Tommy Olsen says he is facing enormous personal and financial costs over Greek allegations that he belongs to a criminal organisation, in a trial that starts on Tuesday in Rhodes.
Drone attacks on Kyiv’s ageing bridges risk paralysing commutes, trade and emergency services for hundreds of thousands of people ahead of winter.
Het gebeurt niet vaak dat het ministerie van Infrastructuur (I&W) een onafhankelijke adviescommissie vrijwel op alle wezenlijke punten gelijk geeft. Maar dat is precies wat er is gebeurd bij de milieueffectrapportage van Rotterdam Airport. Bron
We speak with Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro after he was detained at an Israeli military base for seven hours on Friday. Amro, the founder of the Hebron-based group Youth Against Settlements, was helping a Palestinian family that he says had been attacked by armed Israeli settlers at their farmhouse outside Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Amro says when Israeli soldiers arrived, they ignored the settlers and instead targeted the Palestinians, including him. Amro tells Democracy Now!
Revelations of sexual assault at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 and how the university responded have sparked national outrage, reigniting a public debate about “the extent to which fraternities, the extent to which athletics really support this kind of culture that allows perpetrators to escape with little or no accountability,” says law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer. In 2024, seven male students avoided criminal prosecution after allegedly drugging and gang-raping a female student at the Chi Phi fraternity house.
Brazil’s presidential election is headed to a runoff between leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro after neither candidate cleared 50% in Sunday’s vote, in which the right made gains in Congress and in governor races across the country. Bolsonaro received 47% of the vote compared to Lula’s 45%.
Brazil’s Presidential Election Heads to a Runoff; U.S. Pulls Bombs Out of RAF Fairford After New Warnings of an Iranian-Backed Plot Targeting the Base; Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Will Remain Closed; Yemen’s Saudi-Backed Forces Announce Major New Operation Against Houthis; Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills at Least Five Palestinians; U.K.’s Green Party Votes to Classify Zionism as a Form of Racism; Cornell University President Welcomes Independent Probe into Gang Rape of Undergraduate Student;
Schrijver Milouska Meulens over kantelpunten, kinderen en de schaamte waar ze zelf vroeger mee rondliep.
Flávio Bolsonaro is the favourite to defeat president Lula in the second round of Brazil's presidential elections, which could mean disaster for EU-Latin America relations.
Burgerbeweging DeGoedeZaak opent vandaag een landelijk meldpunt waar inwoners bezuinigingen op bibliotheken, zwembaden, buurthuizen en andere publieke voorzieningen in hun gemeente kunnen melden. De organisatie ziet het aantal petities tegen sluitingen op haar platform al jaren stijgen.
Op 6 oktober begint in Griekenland het proces tegen Tommy Olsen en Panayote Dimitras. Ze worden aangeklaagd vanwege hun werk voor mensen op de vlucht. Maar wat ze deden was legitiem: mensen helpen om toegang te krijgen tot asielprocedures. In juli 2021 ondersteunden Dimitras en Olsen mensen op het eiland Kos, onder meer door hen
Op woensdag 30 september deden de autoriteiten van de Amerikaanse staat Tennessee een poging om Christa Pike te executeren. Pike kreeg de doodstraf voor moord toen ze 18 jaar was en zat al meer dan 30 jaar in een dodencel. De executie mislukte en Pike overleefde.
Germany shut down its last nuclear power plants in 2023 but as the pro-atom far-right Alternative for Germany gains broader support, the country might change course.
Nuclear sabre-rattling only underlines the fragility of Russia’s grip on its trophy territory.
The European Commission is expected to present its long-delayed pre-enlargement policy reviews to prepare for the integration of Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova.
Vanessa Umboh bouwt samen met bewoners, ondernemers, professionals en organisaties aan Kansrijk Feijenoord: een beweging die vertrekt vanuit de kracht van de gemeenschap. Voor MaatschapWij schrijft zij over systemische verandering, menselijkheid en haar strijd voor een samenleving waarin ieder kind de ruimte krijgt om zijn of haar potentieel te ontwikkelen. Deel 9: word een optivist!
Je hele hebben en houwen verhuizen en opnieuw beginnen in een ander land. Veel mensen fantaseren erover. Mijn vriend en ik hadden het nooit overwogen. Tot we in 2023 een maand in Skåne – de zuidelijkste provincie van Zweden – waren en op slag verliefd werden op het land. Tijdens de twaalf uur lange rit
Despite its ordinary conduct, Russia’s war still shaped Latvia’s election in a new normal for Europe that most of us had hardly imagined just five years ago.
The EU has decided to delay its methane regulation, and the reason is simple enough. Europe imports almost 90 percent of its gas, which makes it one of the most exposed buyers in the world. And the US-Israeli war with Iran has choked gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Making matters more complicated is the fact that Europe is still phasing out Russian gas, with a total ban on Russian overseas liquified gas due to be implemented next year.
Katarína Mathernová, the EU's ambassador to Ukraine, says Putin is boiling Kyiv 'like a frog', but she is determined to stay. She sees parallels between Hitler's Mein Kampf and Putin's essay which stated that Ukraine has no right to national existence, sovereignty or identity.
In De Kwakel is het vernieuwde dorpshart deze week feestelijk opgeleverd. Op het nieuwe plein stonden bestuurders, bewoners en vertegenwoordigers van het Omgevingsfonds Schiphol stil bij wat volgens de betrokkenen een succesverhaal van samenwerking, leefbaarheid en toekomstbestendigheid is geworden. Bron
Huisdieren en supermarkten de dupe van chemische vervuiling, Greenpeace wil nationaal PFAS-verbod AMSTERDAM, 3 oktober 2026 – Kattenbrokjes die in vijf grote supermarkten te koop zijn, bevatten de PFAS-soort TFA. In het huismerk van Albert Heijn is daarnaast de zeer toxische PFAS-vorm PFNA aangetroffen. Dat stelt toxicoloog Jacob de Boer op basis van een analyse van kattenvoermonsters in opdracht van Greenpeace Nederland.
Terwijl Schiphol trots bezoekers rondleidt langs de nieuwe PFAS-reinigingsinstallatie, voltrekt zich op de achtergrond een verdwijntruc die 50.000 ton kilogram zwaar vervuild gifslib terecht doet komen in de gemeente Hollands Kroon. Bron
Brussels is watching as one of the world’s largest democracies heads to the polls on Sunday (4 September), with climate resilience and the Trump administration’s influence in the Americas at stake.
From biased hiring algorithms to disappearing administrative posts, Bieliková argues that women risk being hit hardest by AI unless they seize the tools early and push for fairer, more accountable systems.
Some expected a change in Hungary's pro-Russian foreign policy after Viktor Orbán’s fall. But they failed to take into account the domestic political pressures on Hungary's PM .
There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. DEFEND IP Act, and all of these site-blocking proposals, threaten the open web.
Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA), H.R. 10364, a bill that would give copyright owners a new legal tool to block Americans’ access to foreign websites accused of copyright infringement.
G7 leaders agreed on Friday to release 100 million barrels of emergency oil and fuel stocks after weeks in which Washington pressed European capitals to open their diesel reserves. Brussels said US threats played no part.
Why unseal the Epstein files when they make such a sturdy pedestal?
A defence analyst warned that Russia is mass-producing "thousands" of new drones “far more dangerous and faster" than jet-powered Shaheds which Ukraine cannot yet stop.
Judge Allows Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit Against Trump Administration to Move ForwardNEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move forward, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
Syria’s regime collapsed in December 2024, over 22 months ago. The country was the largest source of irregular arrivals in 2023. Today, the EU disingenuously attributes its migration policies for the drop of arrivals.
Jordan Bardella, a leader of the French far-right National Rally, has denied writing antisemitic messages in 2013, as the race ahead of next May’s presidential elections continues to heat up.
Het lobbyregister stond centraal in het commissiedebat Integriteit openbaar bestuur. Wat vinden de minister en de Kamer, en wat vindt TI-NL?
Generatieve AI modellen zullen willens en wetens mensenrechten schenden als ze daarom gevraagd worden, stelt Aithos na onderzoek gedaan te hebben naar zeven verschillende taalmodellen.
In a new blow to Ola Bini’s legal guarantees, Ecuadorean authorities retained the free software developer and security expert yesterday in Quito and ordered his immediate deportation from the country. He is barred from returning to Ecuador for 10 years. According to information released by his
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents and witnesses in one of the most in-depth reports on the massacre to date. The bombing killed at least 156 people — 120 of the victims were children, 26 were teachers, and the rest were parents. A United Nations fact-finding mission recently concluded that the U.S.
Na jaren procederen nadert een van de belangrijkste rechtszaken rond Schiphol een cruciale fase. Het gerechtshof Den Haag heeft drie dagen uitgetrokken voor de behandeling van het hoger beroep in de mensenrechtenzaak van Stichting Recht op Bescherming tegen Vliegtuighinder (RBV) tegen de Staat. Bron
Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted executions for the remainder of the year after a death row prisoner survived two lethal injections on Wednesday. According to her lawyers, Christa Pike was still breathing after she was strapped to a gurney and injected with two syringes of pentobarbital in a botched execution that spanned more than two hours. Prior to the scheduled execution, Pike and her lawyers argued a single-dose lethal injection could be tantamount to torture due to Pike’s small veins.
Christa Pike Hospitalized in Critical Condition After Surviving “Cruel and Torturous” Execution; Pentagon Deploys Third Carrier Strike Group and Marines to Middle East; Fighting Intensifies Between Houthis and Saudi-Backed Government Forces in Yemen; U.K. Police Arrest British Iranian Dual National as Questions Grow over Alleged Plot at Air Base; DoorDash Driver Shot by ICE Has Surgery to Remove Bullet from His Back After Agonizing 11-Day Wait; Family of Renee Good Sues ICE Agent Jonathan Ross and Top U.S. Officials;
PM Peter Magyar waives his own immunity as Hungary's "Operation Purgatory" saw authorities detain two former Orbán ministers over alleged multibillion-forint corruption. The new asset recovery office took over four major cases, including Orbán's brother's visa business, while Hungary may soon join the European Public Prosecutor's Office.
The EU has played down claims by the Dutch government that the bloc’s decision to suspend aid support for Sierra Leone was because the west African country refused to extradite one of the world’s most-wanted drug traffickers to face trial in the Netherlands.
Onze 10 uitgangspunten voor journalistiek voor rechtvaardigheid.
We went to Ceuta to see how Europe treats people who arrive at its borders. We came back asking how Europe can still call itself a continent governed by law. What we saw there was the often abstract failure of migration policy made brutally concrete: the daily humiliation of human beings.
Migranten krijgen de schuld van de wooncrisis, de wachtlijsten in de zorg, de onveiligheid op straat. Wie dat doet, hoeft het niet te hebben over wie er wél profiteert van hoge huren en lage lonen. Samen met Deep Canvassing Nederland en Stroomversnellers onderzochten we hoe we die zondebokpolitiek kunnen ontwapenen. Het antwoord: door het hele verhaal te vertellen.
Gender now splits the youngest voters more than class or education. Many young men feel sidelined by a shifting balance and vote far-right while young women vote far-left.
As Brussels pins its housing fix on curbing Airbnb-style rentals, campaigners warn lawmakers are ducking a far bigger fight over Europe’s millions of empty homes and the people still sleeping rough.
Italy brought back border controls with Spain in August, and has now extended them until at least 15 October, as more EU countries introduce checks.
Wim Schepens stuitte recent op een quote van Bob Marley, the godfather of reggae. “Bob mocht dan wel dankzij een dagelijkse, behoorlijke portie ganja regelmatig in hogere sferen verkeren, dat weerhield hem er niet van om vaak behoorlijk scherp uit de hoek te komen: ‘Some people are so poor, the only thing they have is money’”. Of de quote terecht aan hem is toegeschreven, is de vraag. Wat er wel toe doet, zijn de verhalen die aanzetten tot actie. En dit is er zo één.
Samenwonen is van alle tijden; met je ouder(s) of verzorger(s), in een studentenhuis of met je geliefde is vrij normaal, maar in de afgelopen jaren komen daar steeds meer vormen bij. Denk aan erfdelen, eco-communities, mommunes, adult dorms, ouderen die zelfstandig samenwonen, of een extra stuk huis dat je kan aanbouwen voor je ouders. Deze
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from their Flock Safety system with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out for this direct violation of California law, which has put every driver in the county at risk and is especially dangerous for immigrants, abortion seekers, and other targets of the federal government.
If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the Google Play Store. And if you are a developer, you may have noticed new options for billing and distributing your apps. For years, Epic Games, maker of
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah Department of Commerce, detailing how forcing platforms to detect and block privacy-preserving tools undermines user privacy and security worldwide while demanding the impossible.
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems by default without even thinking about potential alternatives. It’s time to rethink that relationship.
The general trend of abortion care has been on the up, but the effect of neo-conservatism’s modern revamp has been impossible to ignore. From Rome to Budapest, governments have been rolling back the progress, with initiatives stalling all the way up to EU level.
“What the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”
Nederland moet stoppen met de import van Israëlische wapens omdat dit bijdraagt aan Israëls genocide in Gaza
French political scientist Jacques Rupnik says the economic illiteracy of Marine Le Pen and Mélenchon is astonishing. He anticipates that in the first round of France's presidential election, most voters will back a candidate they believe can stop Le Pen. A Mamdani moment could happen, since people feel that politics has exhausted itself.
As we continue our coverage on the rise of right-wing political parties across Europe, we speak to Wiebke Judith from the German organization for asylum seekers’ rights, PRO ASYL, about Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, and its recent wins in September’s state elections.
Democracy Now!‘s Amy Goodman is in Berlin, Germany, this week, where the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech is shaped by the German policy of Staatsräson, or “reason of state.” The concept refers to Germany’s commitment to the existence of the Israeli state in light of the Holocaust. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in 2023, Staatsräson has manifested itself as German military aid to Israel and heavy policing of Palestine activism inside Germany.
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence.
Tennessee Halts Executions as Condemned Prisoner Christa Pike Survives Lethal Injections; Hegseth Announces “AutoWarCom” to Oversee Autonomous Drones and Robots; Judge Orders Pentagon to Provide Rationale for Lethal Boat Strikes; Passengers and Crew Say Pilot Tried to Crash Airliner Bound for Israel; Palestinians Hold Mass Funeral in Gaza for 105 People Killed by Israel; Cambridge for Palestine Delivers Open Letter Calling on City Officials to Divest from Israel; Immigration Judge Rules Salah Sarsour Can Be Deported;
Donald Trump is betting on voluntary commitments from AI companies. On Tuesday (29 September), he unveiled a self-regulatory agreement drawn up with some of the biggest names in the AI industry.
Het interview dat Simone Boitelle, de nieuwe communicatiedirecteur van Schiphol, gaf aan vakblad Adformatie is op het eerste gezicht het portret van een ambitieuze bestuurder die na jaren van crisis het bedrijf weer richting wil geven. Maar dat is niet alles. Bron
This report documents the surveillance ecosystem that enables the Moroccan authorities to use repressive tactics to harass, discredit and ultimately silence human rights defenders. It outlines the role of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service, the Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (DGST), in conducting surveillance operations against civil society. These operations are often accompanied by
Het besluit over de maatwerkafspraken en miljardensubsidie voor Tata Steel is uitgesteld tot 1 maart. Industrie-expert van Milieudefensie, Elisa Asscheman, over wat dit uitstel nou precies betekent.
Met het aantreden van hoofdredacteur Seada Nourhussen kwam journalistiek voor rechtvaardigheid centraal te staan.
With Nato doors closed to Ukraine and Russia pushing a new Iron Curtain across the Black Sea, an “urgent” EU expansion toward Kyiv and Chișinău is emerging as Europe’s main tool to defend its eastern flank and preserve its global clout.
By extending pesticide approvals and keeping hazardous products on the market, Brussels is bending to Big Pharma and causing a food-system and public-health burden for decades to come.
In Poland, student status has become a sought-after commodity that employment agencies exploit for gains. Many foreign workers were unaware they were enrolled in fake schools associated with pro-Kremlin figures.
Supermarkten, biermerken en andere voedingsmerken, verkopen allerlei producten met PFAS erin. Ook zij moeten een verbod steunen.
Researchers found that even when users rejected non-essential cookies, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude still connected to Google Ads.
Het thema van de Kinderboekenweek 2025 (30 september -11 oktober) is ‘Spot aan!’ De Betekenis Boeken Club besteedt elke dag aandacht aan een boek uit die enorme stapel kinderboeken. En zoals je gewend bent, doet deze bijzondere boekenclub dit met een eigenwijze en prachtige stapel hele verschillende kinderboeken. Tip: geef tijdens de Kinderboekenweek eens een kinderboek cadeau aan een kind in je omgeving of voor de leeszaal in je buurt. Spot aan!
“Een groene oase op twintig minuten van de stad.” Zo omschrijft Sanne Raes (37) haar woongemeenschap Arneco in het buitengebied van Arnhem. Dik tien jaar geleden heeft ze een boerderij omgetoverd tot een woongemeenschap met 15 koopwoningen. Inmiddels wonen er zo’n veertig mensen. Ze dragen samen zorg voor de plek én voor elkaar. “De boer
When the rich and powerful try to use the court to silence negative reporting about themselves, it’s worth calling out that behavior for what it is: an attack on free speech. This is why EFF is happy to stand up for reporters who find themselves in that situation.The California Court of Appeals
De Marokkaanse autoriteiten beschikken over een uitgebreid surveillancesysteem dat digitale en analoge middelen combineert om journalisten, activisten en andere kritische stemmen op te sporen, in de gaten te houden en uiteindelijk het zwijgen op te leggen. Dat blijkt uit een nieuw rapport van Amnesty International. We start with the verdict: ‘Inside Morocco’s surveillance machine’ laat
Bierbrouwers hard getroffen door chemische vervuiling, Greenpeace vraagt om nationaal PFAS-verbod
The EU’s return regulation is being formally adopted on Thursday, setting a new precedent for police raids. The Belgians are pressing ahead with their own national version, putting civil liberties of everyone at risk.
With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our data? In our latest EFFector newsletter, we’re talking about the privacy complications of AI phone features.JOIN OUR NEWSLETTERFor over 35