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3 days ago
A Polish activist for abortion rights, Justyna Wydrzyńska, was back in front of court on Thursday for an appeal hearing — after having been sentenced to eight months community service for helping a pregnant woman, a victim of domestic violence, get an abortion in 2023.
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14 minutes ago
I walked the streets of Damascus last week and could read the joy on people's faces. The many Syrians with whom I sipped tea or shared a meal were in a kind of intoxication, a combination of deep joy, pride and immense relief that Bashar al-Assad's barbaric regime of terror is over.
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3 hours ago
EU leaders are gathering in a new format 'retreat' on Monday to discuss defence and relations with Washington, while the European Commission's official visit to Gdańsk in Poland for the start of the country's EU presidency is on Thursday and Friday.
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

3 months ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X

5 months ago
Leaders should ask themselves - is X really what I want my brand to be associated with?
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EUobserver's Top 10 stories of 2024

1 month ago
Allow us at EUobserver to blow our own trumpet as 2024 draws to a close, with a look back at the best of the journalistic path we follow — less frothy personality-driven politics, more policy, research and investigations.
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