Europe News

Signing Up to a Charter for Single People

The Guardian newspaper reports that the Belgian regional council of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, located near Brussels, has become the first municipality in Europe to sign up to a charter for single people.  The brainchild of councillor Carla Dejonghe, the charter recognises that across the EU, some seventy million people live alone.  Carla said that single people are often disadvantaged, whether through higher household expenses or the assumption that they are available to work evenings and weekends.  The text of the charter stresses the aim of ensuring that single-income househol

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Protesting the Far Right in Germany

Rainbow flags were on display alongside many other banners from across the political spectrum as more than two hundred thousand people took to the streets of Germany in a protest against the far right Alliance fur Deutschland Party, which has at times in recent weeks, been polling at more than tw

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Irish Minister Comes Out to Support and Love

DNA Magazine reports that Irish government minister Jack Chambers, who is a Fianna Fail Party TD (that is, Member of the Irish Parliament), has come out as gay.  He said that it was just part of what made him unique.   Mr Chambers has served as a Minister Of State since July 2020

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French Street Named for Hero David Bowie

Delta FM, a French local commercial radio station based in Normandy, reports that a street has been named for the bisexual and countercultural singer David Bowie, on what would have been his seventy seventh birthday, on January 8th.  Located in the 13th arrondiss

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Norway Pod Looks at Racist and Phobic Hate

NRK, which is the public television and radio broadcaster in the Kingdom of Norway, has just finished transmitting a three part investigative series called "Easy to Hate" or Lette a Hate in Norwegian.  Noman is Norwegian-Pakistani, Muslim and gay.

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Feb

The communist daily paper Morning Star reports that the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, has sounded a clear alert over the plans of far right groups that are riding high in the

31
Jan

Pink News and the BBC News Channel are amongst those media noting that, without much comment or fuss within France itself, the French Republic has gained its first

28
Jan

RTE Radio 1 in Dublin reports that Queen Margarethe II of the Kingdom of Denmark has announced her abdication during her annual New Year speech on Danmarks Radio,

28
Jan

The Jewish Chronicle newspaper reports that Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has referred to the importance of Holocaust Memorial Day, at a service ahead of the of

24
Jan

The communist daily newspaper The Morning Star reports that the Greek government, which is led by a centre right coalition, has pledged to advance to Parliamentary debate a measure

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