UK authorities have yet to announce a possible motive, but stabbing attacks and vehicles used as weapons are common in terrorist attacks in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

The idea has been germinating since last January’s Brokstedt tragedy, a mass stabbing on a train where a 33-year-old stateless Palestinian killed a 17-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend with a kitchen knife.

The hijacking occurred after migrant stowaways were discovered on a Turkish-registered transport vessel.

The UK is not the only European country to adopt a cautious approach to the sensitive issue of gender identity. Switzerland has also officially called for caution.

Meloni hopes to strengthen Italy’s executive branch in order to bring stability to a country that has struggled for several decades.

Not threats of sanctions but mutual trust should drive the strategic partnership, Lula said, referring to the environmental clause the EU tried to include in the Mercosur trade deal.

Far-left organisers of a “radical pride” event in Strasbourg called on participants to chant slogans calling for the deaths of trans-exclusionary feminists (TERFs).

The Fratelli d’Italia party is capitalising on the Italian state’s failure to recognise Islam as an official religion to radically clamp down on what structures Muslims can turn into prayer space.

After a deadly mass shooting over the weekend and years of being Europe’s capital of gun crime, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has promised some justice reforms but it remains unclear what effect they might have to deter the ongoing violence.

What can the world expect of the new Finnish conservative government, and how European conservatives can support their peers in Finland?