Moscow’s military parade will be less spectacular this year and some regions have even cancelled them.

“Only people who are not running in the next parliamentary elections have been selected” for serving in Slovakia’s upcoming technocratic government, led by an experienced economist free of party influence, President Čaputová announced.

The parliamentarians voted against the government’s advice—advocating for a mere suspension—in favour of a pure and simple repeal.

Germany returned the Benin Bronzes last year with plans for a permanent museum in Nigeria financed by the German taxpayers. The plan now seems unlikely after the Nigerian president handed ownership of the artefacts to a local chieftain.

While Romanian and Spanish aircraft were placed on “pre-alert” by NATO as last Friday’s incident unfolded, an intervention was not deemed necessary.

The Commission plans to sanction Turkey and China, among others, but it’s unlikely such a bold move would muster enough support in the Council.

Poland is using the Post-Cotonou agreement as leverage for more direct support from Brussels for handling the excess of Ukrainian agricultural products in Poland.

EU plans to centralise the bloc’s cybersecurity response has met with near-universal hostility, with member states wishing to safeguard control over national security.

Despite worries that the coronation ceremony would be riddled with modernist innovations, it proved remarkably in keeping with tradition.

The raids on the alleged Islamic State sympathizers come mere weeks after intelligence agencies warned that a resurgent IS is plotting attacks in the West.

According to the data and predictions of economists, the worst of the inflation spike may have passed but interest rates will still go up in the coming months and banks will be hawkish, imposing the tightest requirements for lending since 2011.

French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin considers the Italian prime Minister “incapable of solving the migration problems” of her country.