“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The Bretton Woods System is “outdated, dysfunctional, and unfair,” the UN Secretary-General said at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima.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.

No more tax evasion with crypto, as service providers now need licenses to operate and are required to collect and share data on all transactions with the relevant authorities.

The UK and the Netherlands have vowed to create an international “fighter jet coalition” to help Kyiv procure F-16s and other aircraft. France and Belgium have promised to train Ukrainian pilots, however, no aircraft has been pledged so far.

EU funds must be disbursed without political bias, the delegation stressed, but as Minister Navracsics noted, the MEPs themselves were prone to partiality, inevitable since they hadn’t read the document’s contents.