German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock caused a ruckus by dismissing her voters. The opposition demands Baerbock’s immediate resignation, but her colleagues and public broadcasters sense a disinformation campaign.

The existence of recurrent crises should not be used to justify the maintenance of a permanent state of emergency or to bypass the governing protocols of the Fifth Republic.

Newly recruited teachers will be contractual workers, not civil servants, who will be exempt from passing the competitive examination: something that is hardly conceivable in the French education system.

The chairman of one of Russia’s largest energy companies has fallen to his death from the 6th floor of a Moscow hospital. While officials are still figuring out whether it was an accident or suicide, an unnamed third explanation makes its rounds.

Gazprom’s purported technical issues mark the latest episode in what is fast becoming a long-running series of similar events—Gazprom has regularly invoked such issues as the reason for reducing gas flows into Germany and the rest of Europe.

Åkesson’s sharp statements come as the Sweden Democrats are poised to become the second-largest party represented in the Riksdag.

The head of the ruling PiS party in Poland, Jaroslav Kacynski, announced plans to demand €1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage Poland sustained during World War II, but the German government considers the matter settled since 1953.

In his typical sloganeering fashion, Johnson called on the nation to “go nuclear and go large, go with Sizewell C.” He appeared confident that the deal will get “over the line” in the coming weeks, saying it would “be absolute madness not to.”

In the first six month of this year, Gazprom—despite its gas imports to Europe having dropped by 35%—posted a record-breaking net profit of 41.7 billion euros.

Following his arrest, Hassan Iquioussen should have been placed in an administrative detention centre. But when the police arrived at his home, he was not there.

Stopping short of a complete visa ban on Russian citizens, the EU decided to suspend the existing agreement that eases visa issuance for Russians. Some Eastern European nations are now considering putting regional bans in place.

The bill has little chance of succeeding. It will certainly pass the National Assembly with votes from the Left, but the right-wing majority in the Senate will block it. For the RN, the right to vote must remain intimately linked to the question of citizenship.