On 1 April 2026, the Parliament of the French-speaking Federation Wallonia-Brussels approved new rules on neutrality in education. The decree of 2 April 2026 bans visible political, philosophical and religious signs for staff in the official education system. This means that Muslim women who wear the Hijab can no longer work in many teaching and education roles covered by the decree unless they remove it.

On 8 September 2026, Britain announced a ban on goods and services linked to the Jewish entity’s settlements in the occupied West Bank, joined by France and Canada, while presenting the measure as a defence of the two-state solution.

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right political party, the National Rally (RN), and candidate for France’s 2027 presidential elections, has revived her push to ban the Hijab in public spaces....

19 people were convicted of terrorist and extremist crimes in Kazakhstan in June–August 2026, reports the press service of the National Security Committee. “In June–August 2026, in criminal cases investigated by the NSC, 19 persons were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for committing terrorist and extremist crimes,”