The general elections in November 2023 brought a change to the right. That means bad weather for progressive proposals and even bills. The gender transition bill seems to be off the table, and also the “abortion pill by mail” and the ideas for multi-parenthood.

Finland submitted the ballots for the Presidential elections at the beginning of this year. Two remarkable facts about the new President.

Populist politicians are active all over Europe. Last month, Geert Wilders won the elections in the Netherlands by far. Before that, Sweden and Italy saw their governments dominated by populist parties. How should European churches deal with this trend?

Dutch Christians are divided over Geert Wilders’ election win. “It is a mirror of the country we live in.”

Dutch Greens and Socialists want to decriminalise abortion in the Netherlands. The Calvinist politician Chris Stoffer attends a vigil at an abortion clinic. The terminations of pregnancy are an actual topic in the political campaigns leading up to the national election of November 22.