Incidents across Italy’s rail network lead to suspicions of sabotage
Magistrates of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office are investigating a series of incidents on the Italian railways suspecting potential sabotage.
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Police officers who join Alternative for Germany face ‘termination’
Members of Germany's federal police active in the hard-right "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) party risk disciplinary procedures and an end to their employment, leaked…
Birth rate continues dropping in France, lowest since end of WWI
France's fertility rate has dropped to the lowest level since 1918, with only 663,000 babies born in France in 2024. This was 21.
German state spy agency head says his agency is too neutral on AfD
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency in Thuringia has criticised his own service for staying too neutral on the right-wing Alternative for Germany…
Pension protests pressure Belgian government talks
Belgian political parties currently negotiating over forming a government faced a new challenge with protests and strike action in Brussels on January 13 over pension…
Violence erupts in Italy over police death of Italian-Egyptian teenager
Italy has seen violent unrest break out, largely attributed to immigrant communities over the death of 19-year-old Italian-Egyptian Rami El Gamal during a police…
German hard-right AfD party dissolves ‘radical’ youth branch
At its party conference, the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has decided to drop its youth organisation and create a new one.
EC and European Council chiefs target Trump and Musk
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa have sent a joint statement to the US President-elect Donald Trump…
Danish Socialists want donation cap to prevent ‘Musk-Style’ influence in politics
The Danish eco-socialist party, Enhedslisten, is pushing for a 20,000 kroner (€2.
German inquiry into whether Musk-AfD podcast would be an ‘illegal donation’
Germany's parliament is reported to be investigating whether an upcoming online conversation between US tech guru Elon Musk and the head of the Alternative for Germany…
Left-wing German anti-discrimination commissioner calls for government to quit X
German Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Ferda Ataman has called on her government to leave social media platform X.
EC forces ‘gender balance’ on companies, despite missing its own goals
The European Commission has announced that private companies will now have to respect so-called gender balance norms.
Italy PM Meloni lauds ‘beautiful’ meeting with Donald Trump
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has boasted that she had a "beautiful" meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump.
German minister wants EC to clamp down on X
German Greens MP and Minister of State for Culture, Claudia Roth, says X must be "regulated" to "protect democracy". Speaking to Table.
Romanian election annulment ‘to go to ECHR’, says victor’s lawyer
The issue of Romania's annulled presidential election is to be heard at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), media in the country has reported.
In the Middle East this time, it is all different: Trump is back
Just twenty years ago this week, the world’s greatest scholar of Islam, Sir Martin Gilbert, wrote of George W Bush and Tony Blair that they “may well, with the…
‘Progressive democracy’ means destroying the power of the people’s vote
If you listen to establishmentarians in Washington and Brussels, liberal democracy is under threat from anti-democratic populist movements.
German President brands Musk’s X a ‘threat to democracy’
Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has branded Elon Musk's X social media platform a potential "threat to democracy".
Real name Glucksburg: Former Greek royals’ Frenchified name-change sparks ridicule
As the Greek government allows citizenship for ten members of the former royal family, many Greeks have continued to pour scorn on the family's Christmas decision…
Polish Government says it will only publish court rulings it approves of
The Polish Government has adopted a resolution to address what it claimed was a rule-of-law crisis affecting judicial institutions.
German parliament passes reform of Constitutional Court ‘to block extremists’
A large majority in the German parliament, the Bundestag, has approved a reform they claim will protect the independence of the Constitutional Court and prevent…
Danish Government aims to screen ‘personal views’ of citizenship applicants
The Danish Government has been pushing forward with a new step in its citizenship process: Screening applicants for "anti-democratic attitudes".
Brexiteers voted ‘Out!’ but are left still tied to foreign regulators they did not elect
Sir Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, is starting to slide the United Kingdom back into the EU.
EC ‘illegally targeted adverts at citizens using sensitive personal data’, watchdog finds
The European Commission has lost a case before the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), which ruled that the the EC had "illegally targeted advertisements…
French Trotskyist party leader brands alleged US CEO killer Mangione a ‘vigilante’
Nathalie Arthaud, leader of the French Trotskyist party Lutte Ouvrière (LO), has branded Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,…
To express ourselves as we please, that is what elites fear most
TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form social media platform, has lately been in the spotlight on both sides of the Atlantic. Not without good reason.
Polish PM Tusk’s government ‘led unprecedented assault on rule of law’, claim Brussels think-tank
The Brussels think-tank MCC, linked to the Hungarian Mathias Corvinus Collegium education forum, has published a report alleging the Polish Government led by Prime…
Exclusive: Brussels Signal interviews toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s cousin
Ribal al-Assad, first cousin of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, has given an exclusive interview to Brussels Signal following the former Syrian leader's recent…
‘Influencer-MEP’ Panayiotou building app for ‘direct democracy’
Independent Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou has announced he was creating a digital app that he said would allow European citizens to participate actively in European…
Romania’s Georgescu says ‘democracy has been cancelled’ after elections annulled
Călin Georgescu, the nationalist candidate who won the first round of the Romanian presidential elections, has claimed democracy has been cancelled in his country.