People don’t want refugees for the same reason they reject climate change.
Reuters
Most evidence shows that climate change is caused by humans and immigration is good for the economy. So why do many of us reject these notions anyway?
Unveiling of the completed “50 for Freedom” panel on the World Day Against Child Labour at the 104th International Labour Conference in Geneva. June 12, 2015.
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Yes, there are more and more children working in Europe. An in-depth revision of the European directives on working youth is needed.
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The government’s hands are tied on taxing tampons, but there are alternatives.
Protestors took to the streets in Brussels to send a message.
EPA
New research shows texting combined with rising levels of youth unemployment were primary drivers of the unrest that has unsettled Europe.
Reuters/Yves Herman
The European Union was billed as the most important post-WWII peace project. It has failed.
Law and Justice’s (PiS) candidate for prime minister, Beata Szydlo.
Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski
Poland has weathered the economic storm that engulfed Europe, but its centrist government has nonetheless been booted out. Why?
The high court’s ruling has Google and other tech companies rushing to build data centers in Europe.
Reuters
The EU’s highest court invalidated a key data sharing agreement between the union and the US, exposing the deep cultural clash over privacy and surveillance.
Motorised dinghies arrive on the beach near Efthalou in the north of Lesvos.
Heaven Crawley
Refugees are still flocking to Lesvos in their thousands – and as long as the water offers more hope than the land, people will continue to die.
Reuters/Susana Vera
October 16 is traditionally a day in which the Spanish nation is celebrated. But questions are being asked about what that nation is these days.
Land of hope and Tory.
Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
Big laughs, attacks on Corbyn but what’s the plan on Europe?
Leaving the club?
tristam sparks
We should be debating the options for Brexit to better understand what is at stake.
Reuters / Rafael Marchante
Like Greece and Spain, Portugal endured a bailout and austerity. But it has not seen the rise of a Syriza or Podemos equivalent.
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The abolition of inheritance tax in Norway is having repercussions on their cabin culture.
Refugees collect water as they wait to be registered at a centre in Presevo, Serbia.
EPA/Djordje Savic
Too long stigmatised as Europe’s outsiders, the people of Serbia are seizing an opportunity to change their country’s image.
Here goes nothing.
Reuters/Gustau Nacarino
Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.
Reuters/Albert Gea
Denied a chance to hold a referendum, the pro-independence movement are calling the region’s parliamentary elections a plebiscite.
Obama owes these three a thank you note.
Reuters
As President Obama writes his thank you notes to Democrats in Congress who helped him pass the accord, he better not forget about his European partners.
Another chance? Tsipras seeks a new mandate.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
Reuters/Yannis Behrakis
Greece’s bailout may have allayed fears of a eurozone exit, but euroscepticism remains high in Greece’s election build up.
The Fed building in New York: just a nice facade?
Reuters
Market speculation on whether the Fed will raise rates is reaching fever pitch, but the central bank no longer has the pull it once did.