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From providing legal support to victims of racial profiling, to funding an LGBT+ organisation playing a key role in the decriminalisation of consensual homosexuality in Romania, the Open Society Foundaion has played an outsized role in buttressing Europe's civil society.

Italy is demanding civilian rescue ships disembark people in Tunisia, as Rome clamps down on their operations in the Mediterranean Sea, according to NGOs.

Since 2015 elections in Poland have been free but not fair. The OSCE found that the ruling Law & Justice party's exploitation of state-media and public funds for campaigning "amplified its advantage" during the previous 2019 parliamentary election.

The apparent state murder of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prighozin shows Russia is a mafia regime, Germany and other EU countries have said.

Was the rejection of an American as EU Commission's chief competition economist simply "nationalist crap"? No, there were five good reasons to reject Fiona Scott Morton — and now there is everything to play for in breaking up Big Tech.

Some EU and member states diplomats argue that they should give the Ethiopian government a chance to demonstrate its willingness to ensure justice. But they've also resigned themselves to a very low bar of domestic accountability.

The EU's expansive cooperation with Niger to stem migration may be in the balance following the 26 July military coup that ousted president Mohamed Bazoum.

Just had a nice August break by the pool or the sea? Spare a thought for the 29 percent of all EU households which can't afford a week's holiday away from home...

Spain's King Felipe VI has nominated the conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to be the country's next prime minister. In practice, he still must be voted on by the MPs.

Poland and Malta are the worst places in Europe for legal harassment of journalists, in what NGOs called a "worrying threat to democracy".

Saudi border guards are said to have killed hundreds of largely Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers in the span of 15 months, according to Human Rights Watch.

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in Johannesburg to assess the group's expansion — and boost their currencies against the West. Russian president Vladimir Putin is the only leader not expected to attend in person.

If employment is not as strong as headline figures suggest, this has important implications for monetary policy, and raises questions over whether the ECB is tightening too aggressively

Ahead of the EU Commission's report on enlargement negotiations, the EU's top figures meet Balkan leaders in Athens — but without the Albanian PM and with Volodymyr Zelensky's presence still unconfirmed.

Koran-burnings in Sweden are to go on as before, despite its upgrade of the terrorist threat from "violent Islamism".

Global wealth had declined for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis — but is expected to grow 38 per cent by 2027, according to a new report.

Ukraine has confirmed its 2035 coal exit — but only a detailed plan to phase out coal and replace it with renewables will secure its independence from Russia, fast-track EU membership, and contribute to the fight against climate change.

The congress presidency does not guarantee that Pedro Sánchez's investiture as prime minister will go ahead, although it brings it closer, if there is nationalist support.

Lithuania and Latvia have joined Poland in bolstering security on the Belarus border, amid concern on migrants and Russian mercenaries.

With its new floating barge to house asylum seekers, deal to deport people to Rwanda, and a government mulling leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, is the UK an outlier — or a trendsetter — for EU migration policy?