Europe

Even the most pessimistic Conservative MP would have failed to predict that, one month into Liz Truss’ premiership, her position could be quite so precarious. On Monday, the prime minister sat briefly and silently in the Commons chamber while her…

A classified report by EU anti-fraud office Olaf has accused Frontex, the EU border agency, of covering up human rights violations in Greece. The report was made public by German media. It comes after a months-long investigation into allegations that Greek border officials…

Written from the perspective of a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book “Truth is Bombed. Media and War through the eyes of a war correspondent” is an experiential…

Energy poverty and increases in the prices of basic goods, as well as the need for more structural measures, such as the nationalization of the Public Power Corporation and the abolition of the energy exchange trade, were the reasons and…

Seven civil society organizations from Samos island brief MEPs, ahead of LIBE Committee meeting on October 10th. Frontex is not using its internal monitoring and reporting mechanism to investigate potential violations of fundamental rights or international protection obligations: this is…

Some of the illustrators who have donated their works for the exhibition ‘5 out of 10,000’. “Rare diseases can be lived with and, if research helps, cured or mitigated”, this is the slogan that has prompted some thirty illustrators –…

We interviewed Edu Barbeira (Stambolsky) for Pressenza.com’s Gender and Sexualities in Latin America series in Spanish. Continuing our series Gender and Sexualities in Latin America, we interviewed Edu Barbeira, an artist and activist we met in Barcelona a couple of…

The March to Brussels has ended with a call for the strengthening of a strategy and a change in the balance of power that allows for a different migration policy based on the fulfilment of human rights. Several hundred people…

Spain’s leftist government has announced a wealth tax. From 2023 the country will tax the richest 1 percent of the population to finance measures to fight inflation. The wealth tax is set to last for two years. Spain wants to…

On September 25, the same day New Yorkers finished celebrating the 10-day San Gennaro Festival in the city’s Little Italy, the Italians, elected the country’s farthest-right government since the fall of Mussolini. For the past 96 years, the festival, which attracts over a million people each year, has…