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The German government says more than 1,000 members of far-right groups still have permission to own firearms. This comes as the domestic intelligence chief has warned of rising numbers of extremists in the country.
Hundreds of German police officers are under investigation over links with right-wing extremist or conspiracist ideology, a media report says.
The draft offered mediators in case parents and minors disagreed about treatments
Opposition to identity politics isn’t confined to the cultural right.
Just 379,000 babies were born in 2023, despite PM Giorgia Meloni’s efforts to reverse demographic decline
Schengen rules are not yet applicable to land borders due to Austria’s concerns over undocumented migration.
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Italy expands controversial program to take mafia children from their families before they become criminals
The aim of the program is to remove children from the mob culture they were born into and break the generational cycle of crime, giving the children a chance to live a normal life.
“As a result of the German crime against humanity of the Holocaust comes our special responsibility for the protection of Jews and for the protection of the State of Israel. This responsibility is part of our identity today.”
Anger from politicians across the spectrum as principal resigns ‘for security reasons’ after asking students to remove headscarves
The politician is calling on national lawmakers to ban the public desecration of religious and philosophical symbols and books, saying the restriction on free expression is necessary to preserve the democratic rule of law in the Netherlands.
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AP: Germans thought they were immune to nationalism after confronting their Nazi past. They were wrong
Analysts and political advisers worry social media, particularly TikTok, has become a key battleground for the next generation of voters
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(GER) Head teacher alerts the police: 16-year-old taken out of class because of pro-AfD Smurf video
The EU's first comprehensive AI law has been passed
Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into
Dries Van Langenhove “revelled in Nazi ideas that cause much suffering,” a judge said.
Mainstream parties are changing laws to protect government institutions. Critics say the changes risk undermining democracy.
The ascent of Geert Wilders has vexed parties struggling with how to work with a far-right leader too popular to shun. It’s a puzzle bigger than the Netherlands.
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AP: German police conduct raids against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online
In preparation for the raids, authorities scoured the internet for posts that potentially broke anti-misogyny laws and attempted to identify the authors.
The decision may ease pressure on U.S. social media companies to provide workarounds that would let law enforcement review encrypted messages
“the main threat is Islamist terrorism.”
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(GER) Tesla factory in Brandenburg paralyzed; Left-wing extremists claim responsibility for arson attack
"French lawmakers first endorsed the move to enshrine a right to abortion in the constitution after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade."
Spain is now the first country in Europe that will entitle workers to paid menstrual leave.
Did their diversity hires fucked up something so bad that even tipped off their detectors?
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(UK) President of World Burns Federation unmasked as paedophile who 'exploited loophole' to work with kids
"A victory for civil liberties," say privacy experts
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Germany announces wide-ranging plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents-Speed running Weimar
From pesticides to alcohol labeling, Ursula von der Leyen is taking an ax to any potentially vote-losing policies.
One threat read: “I hope, Mr. Mayor, that your wife will be raped, your daughter will be raped, and your grandchildren sodomized.”
Research showed at a minimum, 215 million doses of Covid vaccines had been thrown out across the EU, worth an estimated €4 billion
"A top European Central Bank official stunned employees by saying people who don’t buy into the institution’s green objectives aren’t welcome to work there." The Staff of the bank complained that these comments killed diversity.
“No one who donates to a right-wing extremist organization should be able to rely on remaining undiscovered,” she said.
Come and learn about "Sexsomnia"
Lol when the journo is more worried about the "far right" than the rapes
The EU says it's to "protect" democracy.
With tractors and burning manure blocking highways from Thessaloniki to Toulouse, the EU’s executive backed a bold new vision to slash 90 percent of the bloc’s emissions by 2040.
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German bank warns of 'greatest real estate crisis since the financial crisis' as CRE contagion spreads
Loans beginning to sour as rising interest and vacancy rates erode value of office towers
Irregular immigration to the EU from Western Africa rose more than ten times on the year in January
EU negotiators agree to criminalize some online violence against women, including graphic AI-generated material.
EU justice chief is ‘confident’ of an agreement, despite ‘some major differences’ in how to protect civil rights.
A court ruling in Spain that attributes a content moderator’s mental health problems to the job paves the way for acknowledging that fact for at least 25 other employees as well
"If 26 members, agree that a breach is occurring, a qualified majority of the Council can suspend some of Hungary's membership rights, including voting rights, under Article 7.3 until all duties are fulfilled."
A convoy of around 100 tractors enters Brussels as Belgian farmers threaten to block access to the capital where EU leaders are gathering for a summit.
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EU calls for 'gendered language' to be banned, with phrases such as 'no man's land' or 'Joe Public' axed
and 'king and queen' phrased 'queen and king' to put the female first
The country’s domestic politics are becoming dysfunctional just when Berlin’s leadership on the world stage may be needed most.
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Rapper who lost half his skull in ‘Nazi gold’ drug lab explosion possibly facing prison: ‘Biggest mistake of my life’
As polls forecast a surge in support for Euroskeptic parties at the European election, the mainstream’s fightback is based on bricks and mortar.
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AP: French protesters ask Macron not to sign off on an immigration law with a far-right footprint
The bill strengthens France’s ability to deport foreigners considered undesirable and makes it tougher for foreigners to take advantage of social welfare, among other measures.
Crowds of up to 35,000 gathered in Frankfurt on Saturday under the banner “Defend democracy – Frankfurt against the AfD,” as demonstrators calling for a ban on the far-right Alternative For Germany gain momentum.
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It is self-indulgent to insist on chilly temperatures in the middle of summer and rooms at t-shirt warmth in winter.
"Britain was “dead right” to leave the European Union and Germany should hold its own “Dexit” vote, the leader of the hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has said."
Irish authorities have already opened an investigation into MMA star Conor McGregor over social media posts related to last week's riots in Dublin
A majority of respondents in all age brackets were overwhelmingly against using mass immigration to counteract the declining birth rate
[R]estoring democracy and the ‘rule of law’ sometimes requires un-democratic and un-lawful (or questionably democratic and lawful) means
Politicians are courting rural voters with relaxed hunting rules, wary of a conservation policy backlash ahead of EU elections.
Analysts say far-right parties are primed to gain influence over EU policies affecting everything from civil rights to gender issues to immigration.
How empty are the stockpiles ?
Convoys of tractors and trucks gathered on roads in sub-zero temperatures in nearly all 16 federal states, while protesters clashed with police and leading politicians warned that the unrest could be co-opted by extremists.
The death might have been just a local tragedy. But some of the suspects were from an immigrant community, turning the case into a cause célèbre for the far right.
Hundreds of far-right activists were seen giving a fascist salute at a ceremony in Rome on Sunday to commemorate the deaths of three teenagers nearly 50 years ago.
"Polish officials have resisted cooperating with an international probe into the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural-gas pipelines and failed to disclose potentially crucial evidence" "[they] withheld key evidence"
Initiative in Germany is attempting to undermine neo-Nazi business model based on disemvoweled words
Xvideos, Pornhub and Stripchat face curbs on age verification and content moderation in latest move by regulators
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[GER] "More than the NSDAP in the 1930 Reichstag election": AfD achieves new poll record at federal level
The late Tuesday vote, which divided Macron's coalition MPs and prompted his health minister to resign a day later, was heralded by far-right leader Marine Le Pen as an “ideological victory” upon its passage.
The EU hates free speech and African-Americans
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(NL/GER) Attacks on Jewish institutions planned?: Four Hamas terror suspects arrested in Berlin and Rotterdam
Polish incoming PM wants WW3
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Thousands demonstrate against antisemitism in Berlin as Germany grapples with a rise in incidents
A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said in late November that it had documented a drastic increase in antisemitic incidents in the month after Hamas’ attack - a total of 994, an increase of 320% compared with the same period a year earlier.
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Spain’s first openly transgender senator, Carla Antonelli, pledges to protect queer and trans rights
“Effective immediately, those applying for German citizenship in the east-central state of Saxony-Anhalt must declare their support for Israel's right to exist.” German Parliament attempts to implement this country-wide
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Outrage as eight of nine men convicted of park gang rape of a 15-year-old in Germany receive no prison time
An expert witness stated that the gang rape may have been a way to vent “frustration” due to “migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness”.
The assembly on Monday began the process of lifting the immunity of two members at the request of the Belgian police in a snowballing corruption investigation involving Qatar.
