A strike by journalists at the state broadcaster sends a disturbing signal in one of the European Union’s most important member statesAccording to the latest audit of press freedom by Reporters Without Borders, Italy has tumbled down its international rankings. A crucial factor in its report was the desire of Giorgia Meloni’s radical right government to sell off a state-controlled news agency to a press baron – one who just happens to be an MP in her ruling coalition. But in one of the European...
Some believe little will change even with a far-right surge, but others say ballot could be defining moment for blocUp to 450 million citizens in the EU’s 27 member states will go to the polls between 6 and 9 June to elect more than 700 members of the European parliament, the world’s only directly elected transnational assembly.The European parliament elections – more commonly called the European elections – take place every five years and, since the parliament plays an essential role in...
Google-owned YouTube is jumping on the bandwagon of election censorship. In a May 9 blog post, YouTube detailed its plans to target and censor certain election-related content ahead of the European Union (EU) elections this June. This includes removing content and terminating channels that YouTube considers to be spreading “disinformation” online. “Our global team of reviewers combine with machine learning technology to apply these policies at scale, 24/7,” the platform boasted. YouTube’s blog...
Google-owned YouTube is jumping on the bandwagon of election censorship. In a May 9 blog post, YouTube detailed its plans to target and censor certain election-related content ahead of the European Union (EU) elections this June. This includes removing content and terminating channels that YouTube considers to be spreading “disinformation” online. “Our global team of reviewers combine with machine learning technology to apply these policies at scale, 24/7,” the platform boasted. YouTube’s blog...
ATLANTA (AP) — It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online. So Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who had defended the 2020 election in Georgia amid an onslaught of threats, posted a message to […]
With the Moderate Party at risk of losing its only seat and the Liberal Party facing seeing its number of MEPs halved, Denmark's junior government parties have a lot at stake in the coming EU elections.
Migrant women account for the majority of candidates of migrant background at 55%.
Le Pen, Orbán and Meloni rail against socialism and ‘massive illegal migration’ at ‘great patriotic convention’ in MadridInternational far-right leaders, including France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei, came together in Madrid to rail against socialism and “massive illegal migration” three weeks before hard-right parties are expected to see a surge in support in June’s European elections.Sunday’s “great patriotic convention”, which...
The vast left-wing policy programme aims to create a more "sovereign" and
The attempted assassination of a leader sympathetic to Putin has Europe on edge. But exaggerating the fascist threat is also dangerousThe shooting of the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, has dramatised the increasingly angry and polarised landscape of European politics. With just weeks to go before the European parliament elections, it is time to step back from the brink.This eruption of violence in the midst of the campaign is so shocking that it may, at best, have a chastening effect,...
About 25 pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted a debate between European Union party leaders on the campus of TU/Eindhoven on Tuesday. The protestors stood outside the room where the debate was being held, banged on doors, screamed and shouted statements, like, "stop the genocide," "cut the ties with Israel," and "EU shame, blood on your hands."
Some 64% of young EU citizens say they plan to vote in the upcoming European elections but in the Netherlands the figure is lower at 59%. In addition, 21% of young Dutch voters say they will definitely not make use of their voting rights on June 6, one of the highest rates in the EU, the Eurobarometer survey showed. Some 46% of young Dutch voters did say they had taken some form of political action in the past year, such