legislation

Road fatalities considerably higher into United States than in Europe. There are many reasons for that: younger minimum driving age, more lenient attitude to wearing seat belts (not even compulsory in New Hampshire), more dangerous road design, and so on. But another reason I have not been...

I found these two maps, which I found interesting enough to share. The highest fixed speeding tickets are in Austria, Italy and Belgium. Oddly enough the amounts on the map are in Australian dollar. I like the system of speeding tickets based on the driver's income like in the UK...

LGBT rights have come a long way since 2001 when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise gay marriage. Many Western European countries followed suit soon afterwards and gay marriage has been adopted by even more nations, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, in the...

The Guardian: Germany legalises possession of cannabis for personal use The new law will allow the growth of up to three plants for private consumption, holding 50g of cannabis at home, or 25g in public. This makes Germany the third European Union member state to legalise cannabis for personal...

From the Brussels Times: "Belgium's Federal Parliament approved a completely renewed Penal Code on Thursday evening, which – for the first time in Europe – includes recognition of the crime of ecocide at both the national and international levels. From now on, ecocide is included in the...