3+ hour, 43+ min ago   (505+ words) A growing cross-party consensus is emerging in the European Parliament in favour of taking a tougher approach toward China, according to MEP Pascal Canfin from the liberal French Renaissance Party who serves as the Parliament’s rapporteur on EU–China trade…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (475+ words) German Green MEP Daniel Freund is urging the European Commission to consider withholding EU funds from Saxony-Anhalt if a future AfD government is judged to violate EU values. The threat could affect billions allocated to one of Germany’s poorest regions,…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (242+ words) People are increasingly declaring Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election ‘rigged’ after a major controversy erupted in Germany over in-person versus postal-vote data showing that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) received an outright majority among voters who cast their ballots in person…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (662+ words) Ulrich Siegmund heads into Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election with the AfD on 41–43 per cent, roughly double its 2021 result and around twenty points ahead of the governing CDU. Whether that delivers Germany’s first AfD state government may depend less on another surge…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (258+ words) Nine people were injured after a man poured an unknown liquid onto an information stand of the right-wing, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the western German city of Bad Kreuznach on Wednesday, 2 September. Police said the attack happened at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (295+ words) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Moscow would close Goethe Institute offices in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg after German authorities decided to shut down the Russian House cultural centre in Berlin. ‘Of course they will be closed,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) Speaking at a panel discussion featuring Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Magyar said the EU suffers from a ‘lack of political leadership’, is weighed down by a bureaucracy whose…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (476+ words) Hungarian Conservative SPD Hit by Nazi Scandal as Former Official Filmed Naked Shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ Michael Vetter (L), deputy chairman of SPD Pulheim, pictured with members of the local party leadership in October 2022 Germany’s Social Democrats are facing an awkward…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (184+ words) Notably, the underlying government resolution from July 2018, which declared the GCM ‘completely contrary to Hungary’s interests’ and ruled out participation in either its adoption or implementation, remains unchanged, leaving the new government’s formal position unclear and creating a potential conflict…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (817+ words) ‘Hungary commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Mohács against the Ottoman Empire today, 29 August 2026. The date is crucial to Hungarian history and identity. But what exactly happened there that makes it so important?’ The post What Happened to Hungary…...