Human rights

Joakim Medin “is a journalist who has done journalism,” his employer argues.

Brussels is chockablock with people trying to influence new rules on everything from Big Tech to pesticide use. Here’s where they’ve put most of their efforts.

Even the EU’s most protectionist countries are realizing that they need new friends to trade with as their oldest ally goes rogue.

Robert Fico’s government gets a narrow win as Bratislava parliament green-lights new crackdown.

Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse has been vocal about human rights issues in Tibet and Hong Kong.

British officials are on a diplomatic charm offensive to shore up trade ties — but securing meaningful deals will take more than just good will from the U.K. side.

Greece has the highest number of open investigations on its practices across the European Union.

Feeling the heat on immigration, now even center-left Labour MPs want to close “legal loopholes” relating to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Critics say the bill would discredit NGOs that receive any kind of foreign funding.

Long seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.

The outcome of a key vote on environmental laws in the Parliament this week could set the stage for the next five years.

Moscow once listed the Afghan hard-line movement as a terror group, but President Vladimir Putin now describes it as a “trusted ally.”

Friedrich Merz’s incoming coalition wants to press the EU to look at withholding funds and suspending voting rights from Hungary, according to a document seen by POLITICO.

Brussels this week urged Ankara to ‘uphold democratic values.’

“The evil that a handful of incompetent people are inflicting on our country is growing,” says Ekrem İmamoğlu.

When Vlad and his friends realized the Kremlin would not return them home, they staged an open revolt.

German and Finnish authorities have taken similar steps, and Belgium is planning to do the same, as the Trump administration removes some protections for sexual minorities.

Brussels watches the crackdown with alarm.

Popular opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu calls for mass protests as he is thrown in jail and booted out as Istanbul mayor.

Trump suggested on Truth Social that people charged with attacking Tesla could serve time in “lovely” prisons in El Salvador.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mette Frederiksen says she considers “mass migration … as a threat to the daily life in Europe.”

Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the so-called LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.

Iranian transgender man had been seeking to correct Hungary’s asylum register which listed him as a woman.