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The move will mean a significant income tax cut for the middle classes, but Merkel's CDU also wants to unburden the rich.
Source: dw.com

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment proposed to reach 100% recyclable items and packaging.
Source: kommersant.ru

Slovakia has until the end of the year to submit a report regarding the implementation of anti-corruption measures, the Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) said on Tuesday.
Source: euronews.com

A doctor has gone on trial in the Netherlands in a landmark case expected to probe the law on whether patients with advanced dementia can give consent to assisted dying.
Source: theguardian.com

The ability of Northern Ireland's human rights watchdog to take legal cases is now severely restricted by repeated budget cuts, it has said. It has 14 staff members, down from 32 in 2009.
Source: bbc.com

A "weed experiment" that could see cannabis that has been grown legally and tested for quality to be sold in Dutch "coffee shops" has moved one step closer to fruition, the country's health ministry has said.
Source: euronews.com

Council of Europe says law should criminalise lack of consent not just use of violence.
Source: theguardian.com

Germany enforced two decrees to make it easier for people, mainly Jews, who fled the Nazi regime because of persecution as well as their descendents to have their citizenship restored, the interior ministry said.
Source: reuters.com

The ECHR has ruled that Russia violated multiple rights of Sergei Magnitsky — an auditor who died a decade ago while in pretrial detention. The court said the poor medical care he received led to his death.
Source: dw.com