Biztech news Apple's own staff concerned about plans for anti-child abuse scanning According to sources within the company, staff have been taking to Slack to voice their concerns over customers' privacy. 13/08/2021
Biztech news Pegasus spyware scandal: What we know so far An international group of journalists made explosive allegations about widespread government spying on mobile phones. Here's what they say. 20/07/2021
View PiS hasn’t given up on its bid to control Polish judges ǀ View Judge Czubieniak became a part of the news cycle when a new judicial discipline committee – created by the ruling party [in Poland] in 2018 – made her the 28th judge to face investigation and possible sanctions. 14/06/2019
View Why we should feel hopeful after the EU elections ǀ View Despite all the challenges facing our newly elected MEPs, I am hopeful that a freer, fairer Europe is in reach. In last week’s elections, Europeans came out and voted in greater numbers than at any time in the last 20 years, and many campaigns were driven by young people who made their voices heard. 04/06/2019
View Romania: Where corruption begins before birth. Recent gains are only the beginning ǀ View Last week, the European Parliament elections saw voter participation exceed 50%, a resounding rejection of the corruption-fueled party in power, the Social Democrats Party (PSD). [But] many challenges remain for the people of Romania, far too many of which are exacerbated by corruption. 03/06/2019
View Europe must make the right choice for climate ǀ View The parties that dream of a Europe made up of self centred, authoritarian states, are the same parties that oppose climate action and question the very existence of the climate crisis. 10/05/2019
View So, it’s the end of liberal democracy? Think again ǀ View The death of liberal democracy has been announced prematurely. But without efforts to counter populism and pessimism, it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. 16/04/2019
View The EPP must ditch Orbán to salvage its credibility ǀ View The enfant terrible of the EPP, Viktor Orbán has consistently crossed red lines set out by the Europarty. In order to salvage what remains of its credibility and stick up for the EU's core values, the EPP must cut ties with the Hungarian autocrat before it is too late. 08/03/2019
View Guy Verhofstadt: Europe à la carte is not on the menu | View Sooner rather than later [...] the EU must be able to prevent and correct breaches of Union values. We should create the powers to apply sanctions – if necessary including financial sanctions - that can act as effective deterrence. 29/11/2018
View Spitzenkandidat or Autokratenkandidat? The Rot on Europe’s Right With Weber’s selection, the EPP’s Faustian bargain with Europe’s leading autocrat Orbán is sealed. 12/11/2018
View The US isn't close to becoming another Poland or Hungary - yet | View Professor Krugman is right to be concerned given President Trump's ongoing attacks on democratic norms in the US and the Republican party's complicity in those attacks, but I don't agree that we are close to becoming another Poland or Hungary. 13/09/2018
View Fidesz's future, Article 7 - Two questions to Hungarian MEPs | View SZANYI: “I can only hope that finally the EPP leaders will prove to have sufficient political will, and leverage on Orbán to respect European values.” MOLNÁR: “I believe that the EPP should have launched the exclusion of Fidesz from its community a long time ago.” 10/09/2018
Portugal Portugal's Carnation Revolution through the eyes of a coup leader It was one of the most important days in Portugal's recent history, when four decades of authoritarian rule would abruptly end. 25/04/2018
View Catalonia's crisis, Europe's wake up call | View European intervention in the Catalan crisis is unavoidable amid a systematic bias against secession in the interpretation of Spanish law, says an advisor to the European Parliament. 18/04/2018
