Can free gym memberships tackle Malta’s obesity crisis?
Starting in 2025, Malta offered young people born between 2005 and 2007 a free six-month gym membership. The response was positive, with over 6,000 applications.
How much money will Italy collect from the EU with the new European budget?
Over the next seven years, Italy will receive €86.6 billion from the EU, according to the European Commission's multiannual budget proposal for 2028-2034. Our country is the fourth largest beneficiary of EU resources after Poland, France, and Spain.
International Women’s Day: Conversations on Opportunity and Support with Roberta Metsola
Marking International Women's Day alongside the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, brought together young women for an evening of discussion and connection. Through an open panel and networking session, participants reflected on opportunity, competition, and the importance of women supporting one another.
Decolonising Language: How Words Shape Power, Identity, and Freedom
Language is never neutral. Everyday terms like “Middle East,” “Third World,” and “ethnic” still echo colonial perspectives that place Europe at the centre and cast other cultures as the “other.” Decolonising language means recognising these hidden power structures and rethinking the words that shape how we see the world.
Two EU countries still deny women the right to choose
If you zoom out and look at the European Union as a whole, you’d expect women’s rights to sit at the core of “European values”—and yet two EU countries still deny women the right to choose. What looks like a settled principle on paper becomes, in practice, a fault line.
Before the Rubicon: Southern Europe, the Iran War and the logic of hegemony
Europe, neighboring the Middle East, was not asked. It was not called, not consulted. The operations were decided in circles of power from which Europe was absent — and their consequences, the waves of instability — it will be Europe that is called to manage them. Rubicons, however, are never announced; they are recognized only after they have already been crossed. And when that moment comes, there will be no 'protocol' left to invoke, because we will have helped erode it ourselves.
Hungary Ranks Worst in the EU for Rule of Law. How Does Poland Compare? [REPORT]
Denmark, Norway, and Finland are leading the world in rule of law, according to the latest WJP Rule of Law Index. Poland ranks 32nd.
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The Czech Republic bans communism: a politics of memory at work
With one signature, Czech President Petr Pavel outlawed communism, equating it with Nazi propaganda. Framed as justice, the ban turns memory into a battlefield and enforces a Cold War logic that narrows democracy into a struggle of extremes.
