Tag: Accents of Europe
NATO strengthens on its eastern flank
Eastern Poland hit by a missile, a few kilometers from the Ukrainian border, puts NATO back at the center of the game. Highly inflammable context, while the political and military…
How to keep Europe safe
Faced with growing risks, be it the crisis between Ukraine and Russia or the situation on African soil, faced with the jihadist threat, Europe must think about ensuring its security.…
The new battle of its kind
It is a new demand for freedom, that of choosing your gender, which does not necessarily correspond to the gender that nature has chosen for you. This freedom is today…
Dutch television in turn overwhelmed by the Me Too wave
Accusations of harassment, touching and rape: for several weeks, the Netherlands have been shaken by numerous cases of sexual violence in the worlds of television, politics and sport in particular.…
Europeans torn between locking borders and need for labor
The record arrival in 2015 of more than 1 million asylum seekers bound for Europe has greatly destabilized the continent. Divided, the countries of Europe have since struggled to cooperate…
The new faces of far-right populism
In Portugal, the Chega party. The last legislative elections gave the absolute majority to the socialist Antonio Costa. But the novelty is also the arrival on the political scene of…
“For a Church without fear”: the call of 125 German LGBTQI Catholics to reform the Church
Catholics and gay, trans or bisexual, so what? In Germany, at the end of January more than a hundred priests and employees of the Catholic Church decided to break the…
Tests, masks… the covid crisis is causing an avalanche of medical waste
If you’ve ever done a self-test, you probably know this. A box contains more plastic bags than components that are really useful for carrying out the test. An accumulation of…
When language becomes an issue of national affirmation
Faced with the Russian threat, Ukraine has continued to increase the use of its national language. Because it is one of the paradoxes of this former Soviet republic: for more…
Abortion: the ordeal of Polish women
A year after the virtual ban on abortion in Poland, the problems remain. At the end of January 2022, a 37-year-old woman pregnant with twins died of complications caused by…