Europe

According to the European Commission, it must become more difficult to trick voters with sneaky, tailor-made political advertising. From now on, political advertisements must state who is behind it and how much has been paid for it, if it is up to the committee.   Advertisements on Facebook and other social media, for example, can play a harmful role in elections, the executive board of the European Union has noted. Politicians, parties and interest groups bombard voters they know to be receptive with biased, biased or downright misleading information. For example, things went wrong in the US presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and in the Brexit referendum, but also in many other recent elections. Voters sometimes only see information from a certain angle, and...

Travel organizations and airlines that cooperate in transferring asylum seekers via Belarus to the European Union must fear European sanctions. This threatens, among others, the EU's foreign affairs chief and the German foreign minister.   The countries from which the asylum seekers leave, such as Iraq and Lebanon, are now helping to stem the influx, notes Josep Borrell, the EU's highest-ranking diplomat. But the union also has travel agencies and airlines in its sights, he warns. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko takes migrants from the Middle East, in particular, to direct them to neighbouring EU countries Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, the EU said. If airlines do not stop cooperating with this 'state-led people smuggling', "they will have to take harsh sanctions into acco...