Wallonia pushes for even stricter rules, while Flanders rejects the ambitious nature restoration plan for fear of a new round of farmer protests—leaving the divided De Croo government unable to find a solution.

Parliamentarians exchanged shouts and vulgarities after Doctors Without Borders accused Italy of being responsible for the 89 migrant deaths at sea, despite rescue workers’ claiming professional conduct.

“This trend of [the ECHR] exceeding its jurisdiction represents a severe threat to democracy,” Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș told The European Conservative.

“I’m speaking here as a politician who should save lives,” the Hungarian Prime Minister said, calling the international community to focus on preventing unnecessary deaths rather than fueling them.

Balancing geopolitical ambitions with budgetary realities, the EU not only keeps existing foreign missions but also tries to add new ones, while calling for 40% female participation and 100% member state-funded personnel.

With 5% of the votes in the first round, Sinan Oğan is the one to potentially break the tie in Turkey’s presidential race. And although it broke his alliance, the ‘kingmaker’ chose to help Erdoğan secure another turn.

Despite the outrage in Vienna, Budapest thinks it’s unfair that Hungarian taxpayers pay for the prison costs of foreign human traffickers, who make up 13% of the entire prison population.

The era of “small, technologically sophisticated armies” is gone, and we must return to mass conscription “to cope with large-scale, high-intensity warfare,” PM Ciucă, an ex-military general, said.

The Bretton Woods System is “outdated, dysfunctional, and unfair,” the UN Secretary-General said at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Could this be the moment for CBDCs?

President Sandu will lobby for speeding up its EU accession process at the upcoming Chișinău Summit, even if it would normally take decades and the country is far from fulfilling the required criteria.

Biden remains reluctant to transfer F-16s to Kyiv, but would allow other allies to do so. The problem seems to be that not a single one has requested them so far.

While a clear parliamentary majority seems unlikely, the center-right New Democracy is set to win Sunday’s election, and in large part due to the promise of building a wall and having the EU pay for it.