The bottom line is simpler than the politics makes it sound. The “My Voice, My Choice” vote does not introduce abortion in Malta, and it does not create a fund today. It strengthens the political push for an EU-level financing mechanism that could reduce the cost of travel-based access for people in restrictive Member States, including Malta. Whether Maltese residents could benefit even if Malta opts out depends on whether the final design funds providers directly, or channel

STRASBOURG. Irma Dimitradze came to the European Parliament to speak for someone who could not. Dimitradze, a Georgian journalist from Batumelebi, represented her imprisoned colleague Mzia Amaglobeli at the Sakharov Prize ceremony. The prize is designed to spotlight freedom of thought. In Georgia’s current climate, that spotlight functions as both protection and provocation. Amaglobeli’s detention has become part of a wider argument about whether Georgia is moving closer to E