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Published on 08/03/2026 – 19:03 GMT+1 Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar has called on Russia to refrain from interfering in the country’s parliamentary elections, amid allegations that the Kremlin has deployed a covert task force to influence the outcome in favour of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Hungary goes to the polls on 12 April in a vote widely seen as the most significant challenge to Orbán’s rule since he first came to power in 2010. Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party, is currently leading in opinion polls. Last week, the VSquare investigative portal reported that Russia had…

Crowds gathered in the streets across Europe on Sunday to mark international women’s day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Women protested against violence, for better access to gender-specific health care, equal pay and other issues in which they don’t get the same treatment as men. Roughly 20,000 people attended a march for International Women’s Day in Berlin. German news agency dpa reported Sunday that the crowd was double the amount police had expected. Speakers at the event decried violence against women in Germany, as well as gender discrimination. In Barcelona, an attendance of over 22,000…

Strength, equality and responsibility. These were the three concepts that resonated between European leaders on the 8 March, also known as International Women’s Day. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT As world conflicts try to steal the headlines, heads of state took to social media to celebrate this day, and remind us of the importance it holds. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, tribute to girls and women everywhere who continue to fight oppression, calling on them to find the power within themselves and never back down. Another call to action was made by Ukrainian president Vlodymyr Zelenskyy, who called…

Published on 07/03/2026 – 21:58 GMT+1 Lion-emblazoned flags of pre-revolution Iran fluttered in cities across Europe as protesters gathered on Saturday to express support for the Iranian people amid the ongoing war with the US and Israel. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Many of the demonstrators, including in Berlin, Stockholm and Paris, voiced support for the exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran’s last shah, who presents himself as an alternative after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli-American strike. In London, people demonstrated against the war while some others marched in support of Khamenei. Between 5,000 and 6,000 people…

Published on 07/03/2026 – 8:00 GMT+1 France will push back against a European Commission plan to fast-track ratification of trade agreements by circulating only English-language versions during talks with EU governments and lawmakers, skipping translation into the bloc’s 24 official languages, according to several sources. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The slow ratification of the contentious EU–Mercosur trade deal has frustrated the Commission, which wants to accelerate negotiations and bring deals into force more quickly as it seeks new markets amid rising geopolitical tensions. Translating the agreements into every official EU language can take months due to the legal scrubbing required before the…

Published on 06/03/2026 – 16:05 GMT+1 Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau praised the United Nations and its humanitarian work in an interview with Euronews, defending the power of “coming together” in a turbulent world. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Coster-Waldau, who rose to international fame in the series Game of Thrones and is part of a group of Scandinavian actors to reach success in Hollywood, said the institution is far from a “woke club” and does valuable work for communities from climate to fighting hunger, even if he acknowledged it is in need of reform and “isn’t perfect.” “I believe it is valuable and it…

Published on 06/03/2026 – 18:35 GMT+1 El Salvador’s Vice-President Félix Ulloa fiercely defended his country’s crackdown on criminal gangs in what he described as “the miracle of Bukele” in an interview with Euronews, saying only the woke and left-wing European media disagree. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ulloa, a lawyer by training, is one of the key engineers of an unprecedented state-led operation to eliminate gang violence under Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has been in power since 2019. The criminality rate in what used to be one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America has collapsed, but critics point to an…

Published on 06/03/2026 – 17:34 GMT+1•Updated 17:35 The Icelandic government is proposing to hold a referendum on 29 August on the resumption of negotiations for accession to the European Union. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A resolution is expected to be presented to Parliament next week, according to Minister for Foreign Affairs Kristrún Frostadóttir. The European Commission has welcomed the announcement. “Iceland is a close and valued partner of the EU,” said Markus Lammert, spokesperson for the European Commission. “Our cooperation is already strong and wide-ranging and we look forward to continuing and further strengthening our close cooperation with the Icelandic authorities.” Iceland…

European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius waded into Poland’s political debate on Friday urging Warsaw to approve participation in the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) defence loan scheme, which has been at the centre of a domestic political row. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “I am quite surprised about Polish discussions on SAFE,” Kubilius said from Warsaw on the first stop of his “Missile Tour” across the EU. “Saying no to SAFE is saying no to Polish jobs for Polish people.” Poland is set to receive the biggest allocation (€43.7 billion) out of the €150 billion SAFE programme, which was set up by the…

The European Commission has publicly urged both Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to immediately “dial down” their “inflammatory rhetoric” over the Druzhba pipeline, which has pitted the two leaders in a head-to-head confrontation without precedent. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In response to the halt in oil supplies, Orbán has vetoed a €90 billion loan to Ukraine that the 27 EU leaders had signed off on in December. “At the moment, there is a lot of escalatory rhetoric and inflammatory rhetoric,” Olof Gill, the Commission’s deputy chief spokesperson, said on Friday afternoon. “We believe that such rhetoric from…