Published on 15/03/2026 – 18:55 GMT+1•Updated 19:00 Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar branded Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a traitor and accused him of enlisting Russian agents to interfere in the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Magyar delivered the remarks at a rally in central Budapest marking Hungary’s national day,…

Published on 15/03/2026 – 18:00 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections represent a choice between peace and war, casting his government as the guarantor of stability. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Orbán made the remarks at a rally in central Budapest marking Hungary’s national day, which commemorates…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Kyiv is ready for the next round of trilateral peace talks to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but that it was up to Washington and Moscow to decide where and when to meet. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Zelenskyy said that Washington had proposed to…

Published on 15/03/2026 – 14:14 GMT+1•Updated 14:45 Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has called on Europe to reach a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, in an interview published in the Belgian newspaper L’Echo. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT De Wever argued that a negotiated settlement is also necessary…

Nearly six years after a municipal election overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemic, French voters are returning to the polls on Sunday for the first round of local elections. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In total, 48.7 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots across some 35,000 municipalities, from small rural villages to…

At least four people were killed and 15 more were wounded in a combined Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv region overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Three of the wounded were in critical condition, of whom two were undergoing surgery, regional administration head…

Will Viktor Orbán lift his veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine before or after Hungarians cast their ballots in the hotly contested elections of 12 April? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This is the burning question that officials and diplomats in Brussels are privately debating as the dispute over the Druzhba…

When 42-year-old French officer Arnaud Frion was killed by a drone strike on the Mala Qara Kurdish base near Erbil on Thursday evening, the attack raised the question that goes beyond the incident itself: what does it mean for France’s strategy in the region? Could it push Paris toward greater…

The leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, told Euronews that no one can “push” US President Donald Trump into anything, as he denied speculations that the decision to attack Iran came from Israel and not Washington. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Does Donald Trump strike you as someone who can be pushed…

Published on 13/03/2026 – 15:00 GMT+1 MaiaSpace is assembling and testing Europe’s first reusable mini-launcher at its factory in Vernon, Normandy. Its project is currently the most advanced of its kind in Europe. The first flight is scheduled beginning of 2027. A subsidiary of ArianeGroup — the French industrial giant…