One child, one file, one decision: Belgium’s top court limits how asylum support can be cut
BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Constitutional Court ruled last Thursday on the laws that anchor the federal government’s asylum crackdown, and its message fits…
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Belgium’s human rights review is now official — what do 300 UN recommendations actually say?
BRUSSELS — Belgium’s human rights record now carries an official international timestamp. At the end of last week, in a meeting room…
France votes for the right to die — after four years, three chambers and one more hurdle
PARIS — France’s parliament gave final approval on Wednesday to a law allowing terminally ill adults to end their lives with prescribed…
While Europe bolts its doors, Spain hands out papers
MADRID — On Tuesday the Spanish cabinet approved a royal decree that will put residence and work permits within reach of roughly…
Hungary turns the page: after sixteen years, Orbán concedes to Magyar
BUDAPEST — Sixteen years of Viktor Orbán ended the way democratic eras are supposed to end: at the ballot box, with a…
Sixteen minutes of silence: Serbia’s students refuse to let Novi Sad go
NOVI SAD — At 11:52 on Saturday morning, the exact minute the concrete canopy came down a year ago, this city stopped.…
Luxembourg brakes Italy’s Albania experiment — but does not stop it
BRUSSELS — The EU’s highest court handed Giorgia Meloni’s flagship migration scheme its most serious setback yet on Friday — and stopped…
“Woman” means biological sex: Britain’s top court redraws the Equality Act
LONDON — Eight words in a statute have consumed British politics for years, and on Wednesday the Supreme Court settled their legal…
Istanbul’s mayor behind bars: the arrest that sent Turkey into the streets
ISTANBUL — Before dawn on Wednesday, Turkish police detained Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the man most polls described as…
“When there is no consent, there is assault”: Spain convicts Rubiales, but lets him walk
MADRID — Spain’s High Court found former football federation president Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault on Thursday for kissing player Jenni…