Jan 2, 2025 · Spain abolished compulsory military service in 2001, France in 1996, Germany in 2011, Belgium in 1994 and the UK all the way back in 1963. Iceland has no national army, while Ireland has never had compulsory military service. Now, however, the picture is beginning to change. Considering conscription. In July, debate engulfed Germany on the reintroduction of military service, as well as the ...

Dec 3, 2024 · More conflict, more movement. 59 armed conflicts in 34 countries: 2023 was one of the most violent years ever, according to a study by the Oslo Peace Research Institute. War in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan: the more conflicts there are and the more they get bogged down, the greater the chances of new waves of migrants heading for Europe.And that's without counting global warming, which will ...

Dec 20, 2024 · “The issue of Islamophobia is a global problem, which has been amplified everywhere since 11 September 2001,” says Julien Talpin, a French sociologist at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), who specialises in questions related to integration and discrimination.. The FRA report is based on a sample of 9,604 people in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany ...

Jan 2, 2025 · On 6 February 2024, the European Union's Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the Directive on violence against women which had been tabled in March 2022. This text will harmonise national legislation on sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, sterilisation, forced marriage and "revenge porn" (the leaking of sexual images with the aim of harming someone).

Hervé Kempf is a journalist and founder of Reporterre, an independent French media outlet covering climate and environmental issues. He explains his editorial success in this interview, in which he also discusses the role of independent media in national and European democratic life, and his latest book.

Dec 17, 2024 · On 6 December, Romania’s constitutional court cancelled the first round of the presidential election, held on 24 November. This small earthquake came after the incumbent liberal president, Klaus Iohannis, released documents from the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) showing that the pro-Russian, anti-EU candidate Călin Georgescu had gained a leg-up on the social network TikTok with ...

Oct 10, 2024 · Created in 2019 by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht following the New York Times announcement that they would stop publishing press cartoons, the European Cartoon Award is designed to reward "courage and quality in the field of cartooning and foster conversation on the topic of Europe". These are two objectives that are at the heart of Voxeurop's mission.

Mar 8, 2023 · Between 2020 and 2021, 6,593 were intentionally killed in Europe. This unprecedented cross-border investigation, conducted with the participation of 18 newsrooms across Europe, attempts to shed light on femicides and rising violence against women at the time of the pandemic, as well as on the staggering shortage of up-to-date data…

Jun 3, 2024 · The new impetus for Social Europe of the past five years has led to important and long-awaited policy initiatives, including on minimum wages, platform work and corporate due diligence. However, progress in this field remains both fragile and fragmented. The key question now is whether this social paradigm shift can…

Apr 25, 2024 · In its ongoing hybrid war against the West, Russia’s sprawling influence operations – encompassing politics, business, NGOs, and at times coercive or violent tactics – form a complex web that is both pervasive and subtle. This March, a strand of this intricate network appeared to have been severed. Czech counterintelligence (BIS), working with European agencies, exposed the operations of ...