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At least 78 bodies have been buried, while it's feared that more than 170 people were killed altogether.

We replied to citizens who took the time to write to the President.

Elements of replies in English

The European Parliament and the European Union (EU) are responding to ongoing developments in Iran.

The European Parliament’s response to the recent violent crackdown of protesters and political dissidents in Iran has been clear.

On 8 January President Roberta Metsola, expressed the European Parliament’s solidarity with the people of Iran.  Addressing the European Parliament plenary on 19 January, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, stated that Parliament has acted firmly by banning Iranian diplomats and representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iranfrom its premises on 12 January 2026.

Parliament’s position on the situation in Iran

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on 22 January 2026 on the brutal repression of protesters in Iran.

The European Parliament stands in full solidarity with the people of Iran and their brave and legitimate protest movement. It strongly condemns the widespread, intentional and disproportionate use of force by security forces.

Following pressure from the European Parliament the Council designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organisation. It demands the expansion and strict enforcement of EU sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans.

Parliament extends its full solidarity to the Iranian diaspora, which plays a crucial role in demanding freedom and democracy and supporting the protests. It recognises the Iranian people as the sole legitimate source of authority and sovereignty in Iran.

Parliament reiterates its call for Iran to grant immediate and unhindered access to the UN-mandated fact-finding mission to address grave crimes under international law, including murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearances.

Finally, Parliament urges EU countries to revoke the diplomatic status of the staff of Iran’s embassies and consulates across the EU.

Background

Citizens often send messages to the President of the European Parliament expressing their views and/or requesting action. The Citizens’ Enquiries Unit (AskEP) within the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) replies to these messages, which may sometimes be identical as part of wider public campaigns.

Que les États-Unis renversent un gouvernement étranger n'est pas chose nouvelle. Mais tous les coups de force américains n'obéissent pas au même modèle. Le « regime change » néoconservateur, pratiqué dans les années Bush, ne semble pas avoir les faveurs de l'actuel locataire de la Maison (…) / États-Unis, Venezuela, Impérialisme, Pétrole

Des responsables américains, du président Donald Trump aux diplomates en poste en Europe, adressent un message aux alliés de l’OTAN : ils doivent augmenter leurs dépenses militaires et réduire leur dépendance envers Washington. Mais cet appel contient une contradiction, les États-Unis souhaitant voir émerger une Europe plus autonome sur le plan militaire tout en restant réticents face à toute réduction de la dépendance européenne aux équipements américains.

The post Les alliés de l’OTAN tiraillés entre achats d’armes américaines et européennes appeared first on Euractiv FR.

On January 20, 2026, ELIAMEP held an event entitled “Climate Resilience in Islands and Local Government” at the Hellenic-American Union, as part of the European Pathways2Resilience program, under the guidance and supervision of ELIAMEP’s scientific coordinator for the SMILE project, Professor Emmanuella Doussis, Head of the Climate and Sustainable Development Programme. A total of more than 20 speakers from the scientific community, policy makers, municipal representatives, and social partners participated with the aim of strengthening public dialogue on climate change in island regions and the role of local government in addressing it.

The discussion focused on the conceptual foundations of climate resilience and their interpretation through the lens of the specific characteristics of insularity. Small scale, geographic isolation, intense tourism pressure, uncontrolled construction, depletion of natural resources, and the lack of critical infrastructure render islands more exposed to climate risks and limit their adaptive capacity.

Particular emphasis was placed on the crucial role of local authorities, which manage key policy areas directly linked to climate resilience, such as flood risk management, infrastructure maintenance, prevention of environmental degradation, and response to extreme events. At the same time, it was highlighted that municipalities’ proximity to local communities and the experiential knowledge they possess can strengthen adaptation planning, risk assessment, and the legitimacy of interventions.

A significant part of the discussion was devoted to whether the existing institutional, administrative, and financial framework enables Local Government to effectively perform this role, particularly in island areas. Despite the transfer of critical competences, the lack of adequate resources, technical support, and administrative capacity-building remains a major obstacle.

The event highlighted as a central conclusion that prevention and the strengthening of resilience in island communities require a holistic approach and cooperation among the scientific community, local authorities, institutions, and citizens. In an environment of an intensifying climate crisis, timely action is a critical factor in limiting impacts and enhancing the resilience of islands.

Many of these issues are also addressed in the ELIAMEP policy paper entitled “Climate Resilience in Island Regions and Local Government”, authored by Othon Kaminiaris, Expert on Environment and Climate Change at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Research Associate, ELIAMEP, and Artemis Androni, International Development Advisor.

The full text of the paper is available here, and its executive summary is available here (in Greek).

 

U.S. policy toward Central Asia has narrowed to the economic realm.

DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695
Committee on Security and Defence
Costas Mavrides

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DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695
Committee on Security and Defence
Costas Mavrides

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Les deux plus grands constructeurs automobiles européens ont exhorté Bruxelles à modifier les subventions à l’achat et les marchés publics afin de favoriser la production nationale par rapport aux véhicules importés, appelant à un étiquetage clair et à des incitations supplémentaires pour les voitures électriques construites en Europe.

The post Refonte de la politique industrielle de l’UE : Volkswagen et Stellantis réclament des règles « made in Europe » appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Eurofighter and NETMA signed a contract for the development, testing, and certification of the Aerodynamic Modification Kit to be installed on the Typhoon. Eurofighter and the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA) have announced the signing of a contract for the development, testing, and certification of the Aerodynamic Modification Kit (AMK) to be installed […]

While the radical left busied itself karening through public life—thugging around with cliquish silent stares to shame non-socialist conformity, in ways uncomfortably reminiscent of Khamenei-style intimidation—the streets of Iran have been on fire since December 28, 2025. What erupted across all 31 provinces marked the largest wave of democratic movement since the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in custody after being arrested by Iran’s hijab police for allegedly violating compulsory hijab laws.

Unlike earlier protests that flared unevenly and then dissipated in fragments, this movement distinguished itself through scale, coordination, and synchronized leadership. Bazaar merchants shuttered their shops in lockstep with nationwide strikes by students and industrial workers. Ethnic minorities mobilized along the periphery, while the global Iranian diaspora amplified the uprising abroad in real time, transforming local dissent into a transnational political moment.

This mobilization was not spontaneous rage but the product of a deep structural rupture. Decades of economic stagnation and systemic corruption had pushed Iranian society beyond the threshold of endurance, leaving virtually no space for reform within the existing order. By December 2025, inflation had surged past 52.6 percent, while the rial had collapsed by more than 80 percent year over year—material conditions that rendered political quietude untenable.

The Islamic Republic, in the end, responded to this democratic challenge as it always has: by killing its own people. Iran International estimates that by mid-January 2026, between 12,000 and 20,000 protesters had been killed in a brutal nationwide crackdown—a textbook campaign of mass repression—alongside roughly 330,000 injuries and more than 18,000 arrests.

When the Radical Left’s Romanticism Turns into a Political Theatre

Despite their cadre-bred reflex to wrap grand social causes in revolutionary garb—and their near-compulsive urge to politicize them across Facebook timelines—the radical left in the West has remained conspicuously silent on the bloodshed in Iran. This silence, bitterly felt across the Iranian diaspora over the past one month, has been so complete as to verge on erasure, especially when contrasted with the movement’s vocal and relentless solidarity campaigns for Gaza.

Angered by this identity-denying deafened hush, Iranian-American human-rights activist Masih Alinejad, for instance, has directly criticized the radical left’s posture as “beyond hypocrisy”: not an accidental omission, but an ideological silence that, in her words, exposes how readily parts of the radical left “sympathize with… Islamic terrorists” so long as their violence is rhetorically framed as resistance to the West. Her charge is blunt: solidarity collapses the moment the victims refuse to conform to the approved script.

Even outlets hardly hostile to the left have noted the same void with a similar diagnosis. The Atlantic, in its essay The Silence of the Left on Iran, observes that Iranian exiles are “dismayed by the lack of sympathy from the American left,” largely because they are “viewed through the thick lens of (radical left anti-imperialist) ideology”—not as victims of repression, but as imagined agents of hostile power.

Right-wing publications have, unsurprisingly, been the most vocal in amplifying criticism of the radical left’s silence. In a January 13 article titled Why are the world’s loudest ‘human rights’ voices silent on Iran?, The Telegraph traces this silence to a deeper anti-Western intellectual lineage shaped by figures such as Michel Foucault and Edward Said. According to the piece, this tradition furnished the ideological scaffolding that enabled a revolution-romanticizing Western radical left to form what it calls a “strange union” with the ayatollah—reframing the Iranian Revolution not as the consolidation of theocracy, but as an anti-imperialist struggle for liberation.

The outcome of that union, however, was not the emancipation the radical left had imagined, but betrayal. As the article recounts, it produced systematic purges, mass executions, and the criminalization of secular allies throughout the 1980s. Yet despite this historical reckoning, the same moral relativism that excused the ayatollah’s betrayal in that decade has remained deeply embedded in the “anti-Western brain rot that intellectually cripples our students today.” The radical left’s inherited truth, thus, is simple: “the (radical) left loves nothing more than a revolution—but only when it harms the West.”

This entrenched reflex, the article suggests, has not disappeared; it has merely reemerged as silence, shaping attitudes even within international institutions. The Telegraph points, for example, to UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, noting that he posted not a single image of the ongoing massacre in Iran, while readily uploading self-congratulatory video selfies of himself “bravely helping the Palestinians.”(To be clear, as of January 23, 2026, this silence among the radical left has persisted even while the UN Human Rights Council convened its 39th special session of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran—documenting mass protests, thousands killed in crackdowns, mass detentions, internet blackouts, and executions—and passed a resolution extending the Fact‑Finding Mission for two years. In this context, unless the UN explicitly bans radical-left activists—and anyone who supports or excuses criminal radical-left activities—from holding UN positions, and enforces strict political neutrality across the organization, it will continue to undermine its own moral authority.)

In a similar vein, The Spectator expresses its abhorrence of the radical left’s moral relativism on Iran. According to the magazine, the “ugly truth of the left’s creepy silence” lies in the fact that the “privileged keffiyeh classes of the West” have “fallen down the well of moral relativism,” becoming so intoxicated by the delusion that Islamic terrorists function as a bulwark, propping up the very bourgeois ideological white elephant they pretend not to see.

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Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 9 - 12 February plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 9 - 12 February plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 9 - 12 February plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 9 - 12 February plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 9 - 12 February plenary session, on Friday at 11.00 in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Le mouvement chrétien des Shakers, apparu au XVIIIe siècle, est aujourd'hui reconnu pour son influence majeure dans les domaines du mobilier, du design et de l'architecture. Cependant, son caractère religieux et ses croyances, qui s'écartaient des normes établies, sont moins connus. Que savons-nous donc de ce mouvement ?