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As of January 2026 the ("Chat Control") has moved from years of political deadlock into the formally scheduled trilogue phase after adopted a negotiating position in late 2025, but the law remains dee...
Several countries and subnational jurisdictions had proposed mandatory age‑verification schemes for adult sites by 2025; some moved to binding rules (notably France and parts of the UK’s Online Safety...
Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...
Available public sources do not provide a single, definitive count of how many European nationals were deported worldwide in 2025; Eurostat and EU agencies report quarterly and national return figures...
England recorded a notably high number of arrests for online communications in 2023—reported as over and “over 30 arrests per day”—and this figure has driven comparisons with other European countries ...
Bill Maher’s claim that “diversity is not always a strength” is a contested proposition: , while multiple empirical and policy studies indicate that diversity delivers clear business and decision-maki...
The current EU “Chat Control” debate centers on a regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse that would require providers to detect and act on CSAM and grooming-related material across many s...
Estonia, Denmark and Spain emerge repeatedly in available reporting as the most advanced EU adopters of national digital identity systems, with and Spain’s DNIe/MiDNI increasingly integrated into smar...
Several jurisdictions allow or are piloting , but as of 2024 no country broadly requires a purely digital national ID as the sole accepted document for international travel. The European Union is adva...
Claims that “the EU is planning for war with Russia by 2030” trace primarily to statements by Hungarian leaders and multiple pro‑Russian outlets repeating them; Viktor Orbán and Peter Szijjártó have p...
Refusing a digital ID or biometric enrollment for international travel in 2024 and into 2025 can carry concrete trade-offs: travelers may retain the legal right to use paper documents where digital op...
Germany requires adult websites and other “telemedia” services to implement reliable age verification systems that confirm users are 18+; regulators now enforce compliance with techniques such as ID c...
Available sources do not provide a definitive list of “major European cities with the highest homicide rate per 100,000 residents in 2025.” Country-level homicide rates for Europe are available from E...
The European Commission ordered X to preserve "all internal documents and data" related to its AI chatbot Grok through the end of 2026, extending an earlier retention requirement tied to algorithms an...
The claim that a "Christian genocide" is occurring in Nigeria is contested: multiple reports document large numbers of killings and kidnappings of Christians and urgent political responses in 2024–202...
Travelers can request access, rectification or deletion of their EES personal data under the applicable data‑protection framework; member‑state authorities handle initial requests and dissatisfied app...
Parliaments and governments in the Netherlands and Hungary have taken steps to label Antifa as a terrorist organization: the Dutch House of Representatives passed a motion to that effect and Hungarian...
European governments can — and do — criminalise certain insulting or abusive online speech, but EU law currently limits criminal offences to hate speech tied to protected characteristics (race, colour...
Fluoride is a naturally occurring element that at high doses is toxic — like many minerals and chemicals — but at the low concentrations added to some water supplies and toothpastes it reduces tooth d...
The legal basis for the Entry/Exit System (EES) is Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, adopted in November 2017 and in force since December 2017; eu‑LISA is responsible for development and operation . After re...