France

"À la suite d’un amendement déposé par le MoDem, les députés se sont déchirés sur la question des signes religieux des assesseurs dans les bureaux de vote, quelques jours après la photo du candidat RN en Île-de-France en train de voter devant une assesseure voilée." — Les députés se bagarrent (pour rien) sur les assesseures voilées dans les bureaux de vote (Marianne)

"Les assesseurs, qui assurent le bon déroulement du vote, sont contraints à la neutralité politique, mais peuvent-ils porter un signe religieux, comme le voile ?" — Assemblée nationale : vif débat autour un amendement sur la neutralité religieuse dans les bureaux de vote (Franceinfo)

In recent decades Dutch society has undergone deep changes in the field of religion. On one hand the links between individuals and religious communities have considerably loosened, whereby religion has lost its former socio-cultural role, mainly as a result of secularisation. Nevertheless, among those who nowadays indicate no religious affiliation, still more than 40 % do not declare themselves atheists or agnostics (de Hart, Geloven binnen en buiten verband. Godsdienstige ontwikkelingen in Nederland, 2014). On the other hand, after WW II new (non-Christian) religious communities have marked the religious outlook of the Netherlands, with Islam as an example. 

In recent decades Dutch society has undergone deep changes in the field of religion. On one hand the links between individuals and religious communities have considerably loosened, whereby religion has lost its former socio-cultural role, mainly as a result of secularisation. Nevertheless, among those who nowadays indicate no religious affiliation, still more than 40 % do not declare themselves atheists or agnostics (de Hart, Geloven binnen en buiten verband. Godsdienstige ontwikkelingen in Nederland, 2014). On the other hand, after WW II new (non-Christian) religious communities have marked the religious outlook of the Netherlands, with Islam as an example.