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Court says man would face ‘worsening of his respiratory pathology due to air pollution’ in country of origin.

Source: The Guardian

A criminal investigation into a Vatican real estate investment is exposing weaknesses in the city state’s judicial system and a lack of some basic protections for those accused highlighting the incompatibility of the Holy See’s procedures with European norms.

Source: Apnews

Mark Rutte's government has resigned over authorities accusing thousands of families of fraudulently claiming child welfare payments.

Source: DW

The test for the EU’s biodiversity strategy will be whether all EU legislation matches its ambition on nature protection.

Source: Euractiv

The European Court of Human Rights will hear part of a case brought by Ukraine alleging Russian human rights violations in the Crimea peninsula.

Source: Reuters

French lawmakers passed a bill to preserve “the sensory heritage of the countryside,” after a series of widely publicized neighborhood spats in France’s rural corners, many of them involving noisy animals.

Source: The New York Times

Hungary’s government, which has made hostility to LGBT people a central part of its right-wing agenda, ordered a publisher to print disclaimers identifying books containing “behaviour inconsistent with traditional gender roles”.

Source: The Guardian

Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee will call for legally-binding targets to reduce raw material use.

Source: Euractiv

Estonia’s two biggest political parties clinched a deal to form a new government to be led by a female prime minister for the first time in the Baltic country’s history, replacing the previous Cabinet that collapsed into a corruption scandal.

Source: Euronews