EUROPE

UK backtracks on climate commitments

Fresh wave of extraction unleashed with climate activists criminalised

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Spain’s far right stopped in its tracks

Inconclusive election follows campaign targeting women’s and LGBTQI+ rights

Greek election: no good news for migrants and refugees

Attacks on civil society likely to continue

Estonia: the start of a rainbow domino effect?

First post-Soviet state to recognise same-sex marriage, with others expected to follow

Finland tilts to the far right

Once-fringe right-wing populists a major partner in new government

Hungary’s latest assault on LGBTQI+ rights

Proposed law adds to the pressure on a community vilified for political advantage

Hopes for renewal dashed in Turkey

Strongman’s election victory signals further repression ahead

The Netherlands: climate action faces backlash

Climate protesters criminalised as anti-environmental politics rises

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

France: pensions deadlock puts democracy under strain

Security force violence raises renewed questions about impunity

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Greece: humanitarian action under attack

Government is repressing the rights of migrants and refugees – and the civil society that defends them