France held the first round of its 2026 municipal elections on Sunday, with nearly 48.7 million voters called to the polls across around 35,000 villages, towns and city boroughs. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The vote was also marked by a high retention rate. Analysts point to several possible reasons, including growing distrust in politics and broader democratic […]
Continue ReadingEuropean Union foreign ministers are set to discuss extending the bloc’s naval mission Aspides to the Strait of Hormuz at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul confirmed that the issue is being discussed, but voiced skepticism about the operation and […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 15/03/2026 – 18:55 GMT+1•Updated 7:00 p.m Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar branded Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a traitor and accused him of enlisting Russian agents to interfere in the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Magyar delivered the remarks at a rally in central Budapest marking Hungary’s national day, which commemorates the 1848 […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 15/03/2026 – 18:00 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections represent a choice between peace and war, casting his government as the guarantor of stability. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Orbán made the remarks at a rally in central Budapest marking Hungary’s national day, which commemorates the country’s 1848 revolution against […]
Continue ReadingPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Kyiv is ready for the next round of trilateral peace talks to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but that it was up to Washington and Moscow to decide where and when to meet. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Zelenskyy said that Washington had proposed to meet in the US next […]
Continue ReadingNearly six years after a municipal election overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemic, French voters are returning to the polls on Sunday for the first round of local elections. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING In total, 48.7 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots across some 35,000 municipalities, from small rural villages to major cities. Polling stations opened […]
Continue ReadingAt least four people were killed and 15 more were wounded in a combined Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv region overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Three of the wounded were in critical condition, two of whom were undergoing surgery, regional administration head Mykola Kalashnyk reported. The attack […]
Continue ReadingWhen 42-year-old French officer Arnaud Frion was killed by a drone strike on the Mala Qara Kurdish base near Erbil on Thursday evening, the attack raised the question that goes beyond the incident itself: what does it mean for France’s strategy in the region? Could it push Paris toward greater military involvement in Iraq and […]
Continue ReadingWill Viktor Orbán lift his veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine before or after Hungarians cast their ballots in the hotly contested elections of April 12? ADVERTISING ADVERTISING This is the burning question that officials and diplomats in Brussels are privately debating as the dispute over the Druzhba pipeline takes center stage on […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 13/03/2026 – 21:51 GMT+1 German Chancellor Frederich Merz said on Friday that six out of seven G7 countries were against the US’ decision to give Russia a reprieve from oil sanctions. US President Donald Trump carried out the move in order to boost global supply amid soaring prices, which came as a result […]
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