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Doxing on Twitter | Irantzu Varela of El Tornillo | Death threats by direct message on Facebook | Simeon Vasilev of the GLAS Foundation | Toxic Masculinity | Asha Allen of the European Women's Lobby | The EU Digital Services Act | Guillermo Beltrà...

Botkyrka | Punk and Ebba Grön | The EU Asylum and Migration Pact | Greece and Turkey | The Great Replacement and toxic conspiracies | Feminist jewellery | #LoveIsEssential | Sweden Democrats | Clearview AI | Police and minorities | Algorithmic bias

Ylva Johansson is done with drama queen discussions that portray migrants and refugees as an existential threat to Europe. Johansson is the European Commissioner for home affairs and she’d like to make migration a more normal issue. She’d also lik...

Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | Diversity and Team von der Leyen | Face-painting with Didier Reynders | Protecting Europe with Margaritis Schinas | Counting colonies with Charles Michel | The Great Replacement | Racist policing | Ylva Johans...

Racist policing | Gender bias | 'Black Mirror' style mass surveillance | Samira Rafaela | Joanna Bryson | Sarah Chander | Patrick Breyer | European data spaces | iBorderCtrl | Palantir Technologies and the NHS | Facial recognition | Pressure on Cl...

Frans Timmermans on fighting authoritarianism | Unmasking Farage | A rebrand for Europe Day | Donald Tusk | Olivér Várhelyi | Chasing Orbán | Coronavirus and the Green Deal | Better buildings | 55 percent | Bruce Springsteen | Joseph Roth

Car abatement accelerates as lockdowns ease | Pollution as a vector for the virus | Brussels urbanism chief Pascal Smet on a big bang for mobility | Mark Watts of C40 Cities on the pace of change in Amsterdam and Paris | Pollution lobbies and thei...

Marco Zatterin of La Stampa | Ursula von der Leyen apologises to Italy | Lagarde's gaff | Salvini and Meloni | The spectre of Italexit | Newspapering under lockdown | Giovanni Belzoni | Poems from Ben Ray

Reporters Without Borders | The role of free expression in fighting pandemics | Tracker 19 and Covid-19 | China | Hungary | Slovenia | Egypt | Ivan Bedrov of RFE/RL | Poetry from Ben Ray

EC Chief Spokesperson Eric Mamer | Virtual pressers and accountability | Emily Dickinson | Coyness on Hungary | Israel Butler of Liberties | Framing in the age of the virus

Věra Jourová on digital tracking and privacy | Pledging to vet Viktor Orbán | Fighting disinfo with WhatsApp and YouTube | East vs. West and face masks | Czech elections in 2023 | Madeleine Albright

Joelle Grogan on emergency powers | The Spanish flu | Detentions | Suspending parliaments | Closing borders | Viktor Orbán and rule by decree | Sunset clauses | Poland and Bulgaria

Michael Peel of the Financial Times | The Fabulists | The autocracy virus | European values | Muscat of Malta | Kaczyński of Poland | Orbán and Salvini | Trump at NATO | Modernizers | Historians | Existentialists

Magid Magid | Europe's Biggest Bigot and Bigot-Buster awards | Kajal Odedra of Change.org | Do Something: Activism for Everyone | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Defenestration and democracy | Polarisation | Power mapping | Storylabbing

Mehreen Khan of the FT on civilizational racism | Macron spurns the Western Balkans | Andorra versus Albania | Majlinda Bregu of the Regional Cooperation Council | Foreign fighters | The legacy of the Ottomans in Brussels

For many people, Emmanuel Macron still represents the great hope for an open and liberal Europe. So what to make of the French president’s growing preoccupation with Islam, terror and security? Mehreen Khan of The Financial Times dissects Macron’s...

Beating the trolls with Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Breaking the outrage cycle | How to Clean Up the Internet with David Babbs | Ending toxic anonymity | Rebutting the cyber-libertarians

Far-right trolls often target women and minorities and seek to subvert the work of politicians, journalists and activists. But technology platforms and their supporters tend to resist the kinds of legislation that could help tame the trolls. Effec...

Novelist and commentator Ahdaf Soueif | Losing the Mezzaterra | Resigning from the British Museum | The Cold War roots of terror | EU-funded authoritarianism in Egypt | The persistence of racist thinking

André Wilkens on taking culture wars seriously | The case of Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska | Marta Keil on threats to Polish museums and theatres | Croatia's Oliver Frljić versus Poland's Piotr Gliński | Fiction

Anthony L. Gardner on the EU and Ukraine | "Stars With Stripes” | Brexit’s toll on Europe | Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage | Ursula von der Leyen’s geopolitical Europe | Internationalising the euro | Belgian pralines

Alberto Alemanno on lobbying the far right | Maris Hellrand on slacktivism | Heather Grabbe on red lines | Benedikt Herges of Siemens on the dangers for corporates | Michiel van Hulten on transparency

Christian legal armies on the march | Mary Fitzgerald of openDemocracy | CitizenGO and VOX | Cake case goes to the European Court of Human Rights | Blaž Zgaga on faith-based lobbying and invisible donors

Rape, fertility, and magical thinking among Romanian priests | A Socialist leader denies gender equality | A medical chief mocks affordable abortion | Bianca’s story | No terminations before Christmas and Easter

Women in Romania have had the legal right to an abortion since 1990. But many women seeking care find themselves in a Kafkaesque trap. Bianca, a young Romanian, ended up obtaining abortion pills without a prescription, and she took them without me...