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'Ensure that our consumption respects human rights'

The EU wants to ensure that importers of conflict minerals uphold human rights. Bernd Lange MEP on the new regulation

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Can the EU create a powerful sanctions regime?

An EU version of the Magnitsky Act would be a demonstration of global leadership against human rights abuses

By Loraine Rickard-Martin and Jedrzej Nowe

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Walking headlong into disaster

The EU failed to learn from the crisis of 2015 – and is now paying the price. Its refugee policy is even worse than back then

By Petra Bendel

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A great equaliser

The coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience daily stigmas

By Branko Milanović

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The EU's lopsided ‘solidarity’

By denying human rights to refugees, the EU has outscored both Greece and Turkey in a competition of anti-humanitarianism

By Dimitris Christopoulos

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'He shouldn't be extradited'

Whistleblowers must be protected and Julian Assange freed, argues German Social Democratic MP Frank Schwabe

By Frank Schwabe

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'That's not the Israel I want'

The Trump plan will destroy the two-state paradigm. Europe should reject it, says former IDF commander Yehuda Shaul

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Moving on from Trump's plan for the Middle East

The international community needs to counter Trump's so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ with its own peace initiative

By Nimrod Goren

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Trump‘s piece plan

Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ offers Palestinians only scattered islets of land. It will bring everything but peace to the region

By Hannes Alpen

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'I was required to meet an Austrian Identitarian'

Researcher Julia Ebner went undercover to understand radicalisation and the Internet's role as a catalyst for hatred