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Published on 20/04/2026 – 18:45 GMT+2•Updated 18:46 The European Commission is currently evaluating whether to suspend €1.5 billion in EU funding for Serbia due to rule-of-law concerns and contentious judicial reforms introduced by Belgrade in January, Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told EU lawmakers on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kos said she…
Efforts to rescue a humpback whale stranded for weeks on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast were complicated on Monday when the animal unexpectedly swam away but then appeared to have got stuck again. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 13.5-metre whale and its struggle for survival have captured the hearts of the German public,…
France and Poland planned increased defence cooperation in a meeting of their leaders held on Monday against a background of Russia’s expansionist threat and a waning US commitment to Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish premier Donald Tusk told a news conference in Gdansk, northern Poland, that…
Published on 20/04/2026 – 21:32 GMT+2 Slovakia will hold a referendum in summer to decide whether to cancel lifelong payments for Prime Minister Robert Fico and other leaders after their terms in office expire, the country’s president said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to President Peter Pellegrini, the vote is…
Published on 20/04/2026 – 21:34 GMT+2 In late 2023, the Polish prime minister wrote the modern playbook on unwinding years of entrenched illiberal rule. Now, Magyar is looking to apply it, especially as the two leaders expressed a similar to-do list across three key areas. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT To bypass an…
By Laura Fleischmann Published on 20/04/2026 – 20:11 GMT+2 Positive reports are rare in connection with police crime statistics. However, Germany’s figures for 2025 indicate a possible turnaround: Registered cases of criminality have fallen by 5.6% compared to 2024, with a total of 5.5 million cases recorded. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The number…
EU countries are set to push back on Spain’s request to end the EU-Israel association agreement during the Foreign Ministers’ meeting on Tuesday in Brussels, diplomats told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called on Sunday to break the agreement, accusing Israel of violating international law and therefore…
During last month’s multinational exercise Grand Quadriga 2026, German troops in Seedorf weren’t just training with drones, they were also building them. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Instead of traditional live-fire drills, troops used reconnaissance drones, real-time data links and FPV systems to identify targets and engage them within seconds. FPV (first-person view)…
Published on 20/04/2026 – 17:00 GMT+2 Social media users are sharing a collection of AI-generated images, falsely claiming that they are stills from security camera footage of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In the pictures, we can see a figure resembling Zelenskyy shaking…
Russia opened an exhibition titled “10 Centuries of Polish Russophobia” at the Katyn memorial complex on 10 April, drawing condemnation from Polish officials and victims’ families who called the timing and location “disgusting malice”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The exhibition opened on the 16th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, which resulted…
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