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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…
Platforms like Instagram and TikTok expose minors to cognitive risks such as anxiety, sleep disruption, and reduced attention spans. They also bring risks of cyberbullying, exposure to harmful or inappropriate content, online grooming, and data privacy violations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Greece just decided to ban access to social media for children…
By Serge Duchêne Published on 19/04/2026 – 13:57 GMT+2 A night-time strike in northern Ukraine claimed the life of a teenager and wounded four people, the city’s military administration said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “One person was killed: a 16-year-old boy”, Dmytro Bryjynsky, head of the military administration of the town…
Published on 18/04/2026 – 22:58 GMT+2•Updated 23:06 A coalition of EU-based chemical producers of titanium dioxide – a strategic chemical used in green energy and aerospace – has lodged a complaint with the Commission alleging unfair foreign subsidies against leading Chinese producer LB Group, which is seeking to acquire a…
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