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1 day ago
MEPs really had to push Kaja Kallas at her grilling to be EU high representative for foreign affairs to address her views on human rights in the EU’s foreign policy. Often her response was human rights are an EU fundamental principle, so “you don’t have to repeat it all the time.” That's not going to be enough.
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2 hours ago
The focus now must be on the forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. More than 19,000 children have been taken from their families and homeland, had their identities and nationalities changed before being put up for adoption in Russia, writes Ukraine's former prosecutor general.
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22 hours ago
Hungarian courts and judges are once again facing an existential crisis, say rights defenders — one year after the European Commission unfroze billions of euros.
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Drainpipe of shame: How Orbán hypocrisy became a gay icon in Brussels

2 months ago
The drainpipe in Brussels where a far-right MEP fled a gay orgy still attracts tourists, who take pics to remember what Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán really represents.
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Handshake of death: EU embrace of Kagame helping silence dissidents in Belgium

1 month ago
Every time EU leaders shake hands with Rwanda's president Paul Kagame, they embolden him to commit crimes against dissidents in Belgium, making themselves morally liable.
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Why the ICC arrest warrant for Israeli leader puts EU in a dilemma

19 days ago
As the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes, the EU now faces a critical dilemma: balancing its commitment to international law with its longstanding political and economic ties to Israel. Quo vadis? 
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