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EU leaders and senior officials welcomed the Student List’s election win in Serbia, offering support for reforms and a path to membership after Vučić conceded defeat.

Violence in earlier protests prompted authorities to take additional security measures, with massive deployments of police and even soldiers observed across several European capitals.

Protests over a range of issues have taken place in cities across Europe, from Milan and Madrid to Lisbon and Tirana. Demonstrators are taking to the streets over pensions, housing, education, corruption and opposition to war, reflecting a diverse mix of grievances across the continent.

In this article I have fact-checked Weidels claims in the Economist Interview regarding Ukraina-Russia. The article illustrate why she is Kremlins favourite Kremlin-Gremlin in Germany.

The TL;DR of the article is that yes she is a Russian apologist. Blames Zelensky for not wanting to stop the war; Nord Stream was a state terror attack done by Ukraine, but Leipzig airport attack by Russia doesn't have any evidence; NATO provoked Russia to invade; the infrastructure she is worried about being destroyed is refineries in Russia, because muh diesel.

Saturday’s demonstrations across France were largely peaceful, easing fears of a repeat of the violence seen last weekend. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demand action on the rising cost of living and more funding for public services, with students, workers and retirees marching side by side. Many say their anger shows no sign of fading. The government put turnout at 410,000 nationwide, while the CGT union estimated the figure was almost twice as high.

The change in policy comes after Britain introduced sanctions against Israeli products manufactured in the West Bank, as Netanyahu's coalition seeks closer ties with right-leaning governments in South and Central America

Emails from a trove of hacked Alternative for Germany (AfD) accounts appear to contradict the far-right party leader Alice Weidel's previous statements about an illegal campaign donation, ​Der Spiegel news outlet reported on Friday.

The far-right Germany political party German Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, has tried to enlist support from President Trump and his MAGA allies for over a decade.

Italy’s Leonardo and Germany’s Rheinmetall have secured, through their joint venture, two contracts with the Italian Army worth $4.16 billion in total for armored vehicles, Italy’s MF newspaper reported on Thursday.

Prime Minister Peter Magyar used a commemoration of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet uprising to reaffirm his country’s place in Europe, following years of pro-Moscow policies under his predecessor Viktor Orban.

“Hungary can no longer be a ferry, drifting between west and east,” Magyar told a crowd in front of the neogothic parliament building on the Danube in Budapest.

“In 1956, Hungarians gave a clear answer: we belong to a free and democratic Europe. We want to be reliable allies,” he said.

The premier’s words at the politically charged anniversary reflect his effort to break with the political legacy of Orban, who cultivated the European Union’s friendliest ties with Russia even after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Magyar, who came to power in a landslide election victory in April, has moved his country back to the EU’s mainstream in a bid to unlock billions of euros in funding frozen by Brussels due to rule-of-law concerns. He’s also attempted to mend ties with Kyiv and expelled Russian diplomats from Budapest.

The short-lived uprising, begun by university students in the Hungarian capital on Oct. 23, 1956, was crushed 13 days later by thousands of tanks and soldiers dispatched by Moscow. The crackdown claimed thousands of lives.

Orban’s defeated Fidesz party boycotted the commemoration, claiming that President Andras Baka, who spoke at the event, was illegitimately appointed.

Instead, the party held a parallel event — not attended by Orban — that kicked off with the reading of a message from Balazs Hanko, a former Fidesz minister detained on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office. Hanko, whom the former ruling party calls a political prisoner, denies the allegations.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen thanked Hungary and Magyar for their return to the pro-European fold, welcoming the return of Hungarian students to the EU’s Erasmus exchange program.

“How we’ve missed you,” she told the ceremony.

According to the credit rating agency, Hungary’s 2027 draft budget supports its aim of meeting the conditions for adopting the euro by the end of the decade.

European Parliament MEPs have adopted their negotiating mandate for the COP31 UN climate talks in Antalya, calling for faster action on fossil fuels, increased climate finance and support for countries most vulnerable to climate change.

Protests took place in towns and cities around Poland on Thursday evening, demanding that the government fulfil its promise to liberalise the country’s strict abortion laws.