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Massimo La Torre: ‘You cannot deny nationality without infringing upon basic human rights’

In February Tallinn University hosted an academic conference “Europe in Hard Times – What's to be Done?” with the aim to promote a sophisticated debat...


Estonian MEP, two Latvian MEPs remind European Parliament of topic of stateless residents

Estonian MEP Yana Toom and two leftist MEPs from Latvia - Andrejs Mamikins and Tatjana Zdanoka - have sent a New Year's card to 299 members of the Eur...


MEP Yana Toom's interview on the topic of fake news on Romanian TV show BE EU

On 25 November 2017, member of the European Parliament Ms Yana Toom gave her opinion on the topic of fake news to Romanian TV show BE EU. In the Eur...


Handshake on the Elbe? Ft. Yana Toom, Estonian MEP

For all the talk about Russian meddling in European politics, it's long been the United States that has chaperoned the decision-making on the continen...


EU audiovisual reform will create a nanny state

Twenty-eight versions of Facebook, a nanny state and censorship of the internet: those could be the consequences if the European Parliament's position...


Islamic fundamentalism, “simple decisions” and European values

For the past year I have participated in several debates in European Parliament concerned with tackling Islamic terrorism. My interest in the topic wa...


The fight for voting rights of stateless persons in Estonia and Latvia

Three Members of the European Parliament have bundled their powers in the fight for voting rights of stateless persons in Estonia and Latvia, the Euro...


Assad hopes MEPs' visit will help end sanctions

Source: BNS Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has voiced hope that the visit by some members of the European Parliament to Damascus will help bring cha...