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Same-sex marriages that are registered in one EU member state must be recognised in all other EU countries, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Tuesday in Luxembourg. What prompted the decision? A homosexual couple who married in 2018 in Germany tried to register their marriage in Poland after moving there, but their request was rejected by Poland's restrictive legislation.

The Romanian Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes (IICCMER) has published a report on how Tiktok is being flooded with pro-totalitarian, nostalgic and extremist videos. More than 200 such videos have ratcheted up some 130 million views, many of them idealising the former dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu as a patriotic and authentic leader.

A British-Australian couple living in a secluded forest in the central Italian mountain region of Abruzzo without access to electricity, gas or running water has lost custody of their children. The eight-year-old daughter and six-year-old twins were taught by a private tutor. Italian commentators weigh in.

Abgeordnete der Sozialdemokraten, der liberalen Renew, der Grünen und der Linken werfen den konservativen und rechtspopulistischen Kollegen vor, eine Kampagne gegen zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen zu führen.

Germany, France, and Italy lead a group of six countries urging other capitals to oppose the Commission's ambitions for the Digital Networks Act

Poland is the only European country to have a consulate in Siberia

Die EU ist gerade dabei, ihr Migrations- und Asylsystem grundlegend neu zu ordnen. Der Kommissar wirbt in seinen ersten 100 Amtstagen für strengere Rückführungsregeln.

In today's edition: Pharma Package, tobacco and Europe's silent HIV crisis

In this chapter we draw on our research with displaced people, conflict, violence, gender, and humanitarian aid between 2006 and 2024 in different African countries, which we conducted separately but were brought together by these shared research interests. We address the nexus between conflict, peace, and forced migration using examples from Africa. We situate the discussion within the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial eras, which we take not as mere footnotes but as salient periods in the continent’s history that have influenced current conflicts and forced displacement in Africa. We therefore emphasize the role of history in understanding contemporary conflicts and forced migration on the continent. In doing so, we critique Western research perspectives on forms of violence and their ahistorical explanations of contemporary violent conflicts in Africa. We explain the role of colonial borders not only in engendering conflict but also in creating structural obstacles for refugees to contribute to transformation in countries of origin. We also critique the separation of peacebuilding in the countries of origin from refugee protection in host countries and highlight this as a limitation of global (i.e., Western) perspectives on peacebuilding.