🔁 What's Moving Europe Today
- Washington reports destroying five Iranian tankers, Tehran retaliates with missiles on a US base in Jordan. The loudest topic of the window — twenty-four newsrooms are covering it. According to CENTCOM, it was a response to attempted attacks on a US warship; the Iranian side names the Al-Azraq base as the target, and the Jordanian army reports destroying eighteen of twenty missiles. Explosions were also reported near Kharg oil island and the port of Jask, and the Revolutionary Guards threatened to strike tankers near Kuwaiti and Bahraini ports. 🇺🇸 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇪🇸 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗ · 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇮🇪 ↗ · 🇧🇦 ↗ · 🇷🇸 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇵🇹 ↗
- 🇷🇴 Iran claims to have seized "one of the most advanced" American underwater drones in the Strait of Hormuz. Washington replied that the device was broken. Digi24 ↗
- 🇵🇱 Meanwhile, Kuwait continues exporting oil through Hormuz and exports are recovering quickly. So the strait is not blocked, just more expensive and riskier. Rzeczpospolita ↗
- 🇧🇦 A terrorist attack in southeastern Iran killed a local Basij militia commander. Tehran is also facing pressure from within. Klix.ba ↗
- Brent briefly rose to $99.46 a barrel on Tuesday, Wall Street is falling. This is not yet a settled price, just a daily high — the market is reacting to the escalation in the Gulf and supply concerns, while investors are also pricing in a tougher Fed. For Norway this means budget revenue, for importers it means cost. 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇪🇪 ↗
- The Houthis struck four Saudi cities with missiles and drones, Riyadh shut down energy facilities. More than seventy people are injured and oil facilities are burning. Marco Rubio blamed Iran for the attacks, and the European Union called on the group to halt all attacks. So a second strait — Bab al-Mandeb — is now on fire alongside Hormuz. 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇵🇹 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗
- 🇦🇹 War chaos in the Gulf has brought back piracy. Pirate groups are moving into the security vacuum. ORF ↗
- Trump banned imports of Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles and is throwing Canadian goods out of public procurement. Ottawa imposed tariffs of up to fifty percent on hundreds of American products. The neighbors' trade war has entered a stage of targeted bans rather than blanket tariffs. 🇺🇸 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇷🇴 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗
- 🇫🇷 Canada has also launched a hunt for American brains. Ottawa is targeting scientists and academics leaving American institutions. Ouest-France ↗
- Trump has claimed credit for the AfD's recipe for success, Wagenknecht concedes a state premier from that party. The president speaks of a "really big night" and claims he found a formula that worked in Saxony-Anhalt. AfD won 43.8 percent and 39 of 83 seats there — a win without a majority — and the dispute is now precisely over who will form the state government. The Greens backed the BSW's proposal, the Hesse state premier questioned the point of the party's vetting, and the SPD is proposing a caretaker government of experts. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗
- 🇩🇪 The BSW's Thuringia faction dissolved itself the same day. The movement is falling apart at the very moment it could be deciding a majority. Die Zeit ↗
- 🇨🇭 The state elections were in the crosshairs of Russian disinformation. SRF ↗
- 🇸🇪 Ludwig, 90, votes AfD after being mugged: "Something has to change." Aftonbladet ↗
- Israel responded to European pressure harshly: it announced it will close the British consulate, ban eleven MPs and one lawyer from entering, and send home representatives of the British coordination center and training mission. Meanwhile, a joint statement by twelve countries speaks of an intent to introduce, support or consider restrictions on trade in goods from West Bank settlements — not of finished sanctions. Israel called it interference in its elections, Marco Rubio distanced himself, saying Washington "clearly won't be doing what they're doing," and Italy pulled out of the package. 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇷🇸 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇲🇰 ↗ · 🇲🇪 ↗ · 🇵🇹 ↗
- 🇬🇧 Burnham wants to go further than Starmer. The new British government is making a brand out of sanctions, and Chris Mason explains why. BBC News ↗
- 🇮🇹 Italy pulled out, the opposition speaks of a government without dignity. La Repubblica ↗
- A technical air traffic control failure has grounded more than a thousand flights in Britain, and the chaos is expected to last for days. Calls are growing louder for the head of air traffic control to resign — he is due to meet the transport minister this morning. Finnair connections have also been cancelled, Turkish Airlines issued a warning, and nine routes between Copenhagen and London failed to take off. 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗
- 🇮🇪 On the same day a pilot reported a "large black drone" over the Irish Sea near Dublin Bay, and the Garda opened an investigation. The British press also reports a drone near its own coast. Irish Independent ↗The Mirror ↗
- Vučić has called early parliamentary elections for October 25, and on Wednesday at noon he will dissolve parliament. Reuters reads this as a concession to mass student protests. The president has promised he will "gladly accept any result"; the opposition is regrouping, the civic movement Solidarity is running with the SSP and Serbia Center, while PSG will not be running. 🇷🇸 ↗ · 🇲🇪 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇪🇪 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗
- 🇩🇰 Denmark expelled Serbian diplomats following the funeral of a convicted war criminal. The first direct diplomatic consequence of Mladić's funeral. Berlingske ↗
- 🇧🇦 Twenty-three MEPs are demanding that accession talks with Serbia be suspended. Croatian Prime Minister Plenković is taking credit for the European reaction: "I called our EU representative right after the funeral." Radio Sarajevo ↗Klix.ba ↗
- 🇲🇪 EU Commissioner Kos explained why she canceled her visit to Serbia. Vijesti ↗
- Norway is burying King Harald V today, Zelensky arrived with the first lady and discussed winter air defense. With Støre he covered interceptor missiles and the FREYJA program; guests were flying in all night, and the Norwegian press has opened a debate over the fact that "Norway doesn't have its own aircraft for this purpose." The king will rest in a secret double sarcophagus. 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇷🇴 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗
- Russian drones and sabotage struck in a single night from Moldova to Germany. A drone over Moldovan airspace affected seven civilian flights and one had to land in Iași, Romania; Romania's SRI reports a foiled Russian sabotage operation, and the Lithuanian press links a series of suspicious fires from Germany to Poland into a single pattern. Moscow denies involvement. 🇲🇩 ↗ · 🇷🇴 ↗ · 🇱🇹 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗
- 🇸🇪 "Europe is losing the hybrid war with Russia." Expressen summarizes a warning from security experts. Expressen ↗
- 🇲🇩 The FSB reportedly arrested a Moldovan who allegedly tried to kill a Russian general. Chișinău says it received no official notification. Ziarul de Gardă ↗
DE🇩🇪German media
- Publicist Michel Friedman: Merz does not fit the job description of chancellor. The criticism came from within the media mainstream, a day after the CDU's election defeat. Tagesspiegel ↗
- CDU MP Sepp Müller: the party has lost voters' trust, the election of Sven Schulze as parliamentary group leader is a "fatal signal". Welt ↗ZDF heute ↗
- "Any country that did what the AfD is proposing would go bankrupt within a short time." Economic criticism of the party's program. Welt ↗
- Wadephul pressures Zelensky for Ukraine to buy more German weapons. Purchases as a condition for further support. Spiegel ↗
- Court bans immigration agency ICE from accessing the tax data of migrants without a residence permit. The first judicial curb on this practice. Spiegel ↗
- A railway strike in the Netherlands also hit Germany. Cross-border connections were disrupted. Tagesschau ↗
- Anke Rehlinger wants to cap the co-payment for the costs of senior care homes. Care reform opens the autumn season. Die Zeit ↗
PL🇵🇱Polish media
- The United States has taken an unclear step against Poland and Hungary in immigration visa procedures. Warsaw has not yet received an explanation. Onet ↗Wirtualna Polska ↗
- Intelligence services coordinator Siemoniak met with John Ratcliffe at CIA headquarters, and handed the details to the prime minister. The visit was not announced in advance. TVN24 ↗Onet ↗
- Ziobro files a criminal complaint against the prime minister and Justice Minister Żurek. He claims they "want to destroy the competition". Gazeta Wyborcza ↗Onet ↗
- The presidential palace responded sharply to Tusk: "You are pitifully confabulating." The dispute between the head of state and the prime minister has intensified. Wirtualna Polska ↗
- A Pole was detained by Latvian services in operation "Werewolf". Details have not yet been disclosed. Wirtualna Polska ↗
HU🇭🇺Hungarian media
- A German car company is closing its plant in Győr and will lay off 470 people. Another blow to the Hungarian automotive sector. Telex ↗
- Hungary has blocked the clusters of Ukraine's EU accession negotiations for the fourth time. It has not disclosed its demands. Kyiv Post ↗
- Orbán: "Debt slavery is looming on the horizon again." Rhetoric ahead of budget season. Népszava ↗
- Pentagon: it's worth preparing for a long war. An official speaks of years, not months. Portfolio ↗
- Béla Skripeg, an ALS patient who fought for euthanasia alongside Dániel Karsai, has died. A symbolic end to the campaign. Telex ↗
AT🇦🇹Austrian media
- The government opened its autumn work with a council of ministers. The first session after summer. ORF ↗
- Criticism of the social assistance reform: "softening of the system" and "padding". Amesbauer attacks the federal proposal. Kurier ↗
- Kickl in a summer interview: "It turned out badly." An assessment of his own performance. Kurier ↗
- CEO Thurnher wants to "digitally unleash" ORF. A plan to restructure public broadcasting. Kurier ↗
UA🇺🇦Ukrainian media
- Rutte: civilian casualties in Ukraine are the highest since May 2022, and delays in aid are costing lives. Allies have earmarked over ten billion dollars over the past year to purchase American equipment, and nine countries announced new packages after the Ramstein meeting. Kyiv Post ↗Censor.NET ↗
- Drones attacked a fuel oil terminal in Novorossiysk, sparking a fire. A Russian port is burning. Ukrajinska Pravda ↗Expressen ↗
- In the Kyiv region, the curfew is being shortened to 01:00–05:00 starting September 10. The easing is meant to make life easier for residents. Interfax Ukraine ↗
- Bloomberg: Putin plans to intensify attacks in winter to test Ukraine's resilience. A winter campaign as a tool of pressure. Ukrajinska Pravda ↗
- In the Kharkiv region, hackers breached the warning system's servers and sirens blared for several hours. The attack targeted civilian warning infrastructure. Censor.NET ↗
FR🇫🇷French media
- Retailleau wants to abolish birthright citizenship via referendum and rejects Édouard Philippe's proposal. The 2027 presidential campaign is intensifying. Le Monde ↗BFM TV ↗
- A hundred socialists demand that the primaries be opened to Ruffin, Tondelier, and Pigasse. "The left must not surrender to its divisions." BFM TV ↗
- According to 56 percent of citizens, the European Union is "at risk". An ECFR survey ahead of the autumn season. Le Figaro ↗
- Bruno Le Maire wants to move the start of preschool from age three to age one. A response to the decline in French pupils' levels. Le Figaro ↗
- Dispute at the Eiffel Tower: a Hindu movement says it did not request different treatment for women. Female employees were pulled from their posts during the visit. Ouest-France ↗De Standaard ↗
- Smithsonian Institution head Lonnie Bunch is stepping down under political pressure. The institution had been in Trump's crosshairs. France 24 ↗
IT🇮🇹Italian media
- Former general Vannacci showed up at a police station without the knowledge of either the government office or the interior ministry. Nervousness is growing within the Brothers of Italy; he himself has called out Meloni, wanting "peace" with Russia and "remigration". La Stampa ↗De Standaard ↗
- "Netanyahu also bears political responsibility, I myself saw the warning documents." New testimony adds to the claim that the prime minister was warned before October 7 by the Emirati president; his office has again denied it. La Repubblica ↗Siol ↗
- AfD is targeting the state, judges are already in its sights, and concerns about the intelligence services are growing. The Italian left united on stage under the slogan "Stop the neo-Nazi advance". La Repubblica ↗
- Among those elected for the AfD are a forger, an agro-nazi, and a porn producer. A portrait of the new parliamentary group. La Repubblica ↗
- Stefania Craxi on the AfD's success: "We share nothing with this direction of the right." A distancing from within the Italian right. La Repubblica ↗
- Salvini offers rebels joint candidate lists: "No jokes in Pontida." An effort to keep the League together ahead of the congress. La Repubblica ↗
- A law against antisemitism has sparked protests across Italy. Critics say the target isn't antisemitism, but dissent. Il Manifesto ↗
- The government is stuck over convening talks on the former Ilva. The steel crisis remains unresolved. Il Manifesto ↗
ES🇪🇸Spanish Media
- Rabat has appropriated a Spanish border zone, built a gate there, and is blocking the return of Moroccans. A concrete incursion into the disputed strip near Ceuta. ABC ↗
- The government slipped an €80,000 bonus for its delegation in Ceuta into the unified command decree. The detail only came to light after the text was published. ABC ↗
- Housing minors who entered Ceuta illegally costs €6.1 million. People's Party barons warn: "If they reach the mainland, Morocco has won." ABC ↗ABC ↗
- Spanish politicians are heading to Brussels to "Europeanize" Ceuta. An attempt to shift the problem to the EU level; Madrid also claims there is no evidence linking Morocco to the crisis. de Volkskrant ↗LSM ↗
- The People's Party is demanding the declassification of Pegasus to find out why the government is "compliant toward intruders." The case is back. El Confidencial ↗
- Plus Ultra's former management confirmed Venezuelan influence in the airline and undermined the legality of the government bailout. The court is demanding minutes from meetings with the state holding company SEPI. El Mundo ↗
- Employers' association CEOE postponed registering as a lobby and froze its relationship with the government for two weeks. Ministries are demanding "responsible statements" and limiting meetings out of fear of their own law. ABC ↗El Mundo ↗
BE🇧🇪Belgian Media
- Belgium has again been reprimanded over the state of its prisons: overcrowding, violence, and cells full of urine. International criticism repeats itself. De Morgen ↗
- Voters in Western Europe are switching from stagnation to nostalgia. An analysis of the mood shift across the continent. De Morgen ↗
- Entrepreneurs are giving it up en masse: "I'm glad to be an 'ordinary' employee again." A report on the exodus of the self-employed. De Morgen ↗
- Neo-Nazis, a Stasi officer, and a towel thief will take seats in parliament for the AfD. A portrait of the faction from a Belgian perspective. De Standaard ↗
- N-VA nominates Wouter Pas for the Constitutional Court. Who is the man who could become one of the country's top judges. De Standaard ↗
- In Brussels, tenants are fighting the country's largest landlord: "They're silencing us." A report on the housing crisis. De Standaard ↗
- Flanders inspects companies, but not its own roofs for solar panels. An inconsistent energy policy. De Standaard ↗
NL🇳🇱Dutch Media
- For the first time, researchers managed to look inside the female brain during puberty, pregnancy, and menopause. A scientific breakthrough in imaging. NOS ↗
- French company Mistral is changing course and wants control over its own servers. A European player's shift away from foreign cloud infrastructure. Trouw ↗
- Twenty-five years after September 11, Trump is driving a knife into the counterterrorism agenda. The dismantling of structures created after the attacks. NOS ↗
- The Supreme Court did not overturn the Republican electoral map in Missouri. A ruling with implications for the congressional elections. de Volkskrant ↗
- Elderly people must repeatedly relocate in the final phase of life: "Fundamental and emotional." A report on the care system. AD ↗
GB🇬🇧British Media
- Tens of thousands of teenagers are outside education, "under the radar" of official statistics. The Children's Commissioner found 40,000 hidden young people without work or school and warns of a "lost generation." BBC News ↗Daily Mail ↗
- Food inflation could reach nearly four percent by Christmas. Prices are expected to keep rising next year too. The Mirror ↗
- Voters want Burnham to scrap Labour's red lines on Brexit and move closer to the EU. A poll for The Independent. The Independent ↗
- Very hot drinks can damage the esophagus and increase cancer risk. A new study with a practical recommendation. BBC News ↗RTÉ ↗
PT🇵🇹Portuguese Media
- PM Montenegro responded to the no-confidence motion with a pension bonus and an income tax cut. The measures will cost €800 million, and the government promises to end the year with balanced accounts. CM Jornal ↗RTP ↗
- "The government was the big winner of the parliamentary marathon." An assessment after the vote; Diário de Notícias raises the question of a cabinet reshuffle. CM Jornal ↗Diário de Notícias ↗
- Payments under the recovery plan have reached €15 billion. The drawdown of EU funds has accelerated. CM Jornal ↗
- The return to school is straining family budgets. Costs are rising faster than incomes. CM Jornal ↗
- Police forces PSP and GNR are meeting over new protests. Unions continue to press the government. CM Jornal ↗
- Minister: boat intercepted off Sesimbra may have been "support" for drug smuggling. The investigation continues. CM Jornal ↗
- Angola has performed its first robotic kidney operations. A medical breakthrough in the Portuguese-speaking world. Observador ↗
RS🇷🇸Serbian Media
- Redžepi called on Albanian parties from Bujanovac, Preševo, and Medveđa to form a single list. Minority politics ahead of the October elections. N1 Serbia ↗
- Vučić attacked Croatia after Mladić's funeral. The diplomatic rift continues. Večernji list ↗
- Zelensky hinted where a trilateral meeting could take place and revealed the topics for negotiation. Kurir ↗
- Putin congratulated Kim on North Korea's 78th founding anniversary and promised further strengthening of the strategic partnership. Kurir ↗
- Former New York mayor on Mamdani: "He's worse than the hijackers." An accusation of participation in a "global Islamic conspiracy." Kurir ↗
GR🇬🇷Greek Media
- New video of the Phantom fighter jet crash in Tanagra shows the moment the plane falls in flames and explodes. Residents say the pilots saved them. Protothema ↗To Vima ↗
- Romania has shut down two nuclear reactors due to low water levels on the Danube. The drought has affected the plant's cooling. Naftemporiki ↗
- Germany is rearming, the far right is rising, and in Poland memories of two world wars are awakening. An analytical view from Athens. Naftemporiki ↗
HR🇭🇷Croatian Media
- Waste affair in Gospić: toxicologist speaks of a state "equivalent to a fire" and demands immediate action. Water from private wells and cisterns in Lika is not drinkable. Index.hr ↗24sata ↗
- Attorney General Turudić: first information about the waste arrived back in 2023, politicians did not disclose it. An indictment is approaching. N1 Croatia ↗
- Croatian students improved in mathematics and science in the PISA test. An exception in an otherwise poor European average. 24sata ↗
RO🇷🇴Romanian Media
- Parliament investigates Constitutional Court judge's private plane flight to Mykonos. Costs are being scrutinized, former PM Ponta defends himself: "I am a free and independent person." Pro TV Stirile ↗HotNews ↗
- British army to mobilize veterans as part of war preparations. A shift in defense planning. Digi24 ↗
- Ireland opens investigation against platform X, facing a huge fine. European pressure on Musk's platform is growing. HotNews ↗
- Artificial intelligence is helping criminal gangs develop illegal tobacco networks, EU auditor warns. The Union is losing the fight, according to the report. Digi24 ↗Vijesti ↗
- Court allows Bucharest's transport company STB to enter insolvency. City transport under temporary administration. G4Media ↗
CH🇨🇭Swiss Media
- OpenAI solved one of the biggest mathematical mysteries in 88 hours, but several teams claim priority. Tages-Anzeiger ↗Financial Times ↗
- Rice cakes put to the test: major differences in harmful substances, a particular problem for small children. SRF ↗
SE🇸🇪Swedish Media
- Social Democrats leader attacks: Sweden Democrats are infiltrated by friends of Putin. The pre-election campaign is escalating, and Åkesson's bandmate friend was found to have sold Nazi music. Dagens Nyheter ↗Dagens Nyheter ↗
- The center now leads in the election. Polls have shifted just before the vote. Expressen ↗
- Andersson and Åkesson clashed on public television: "Parrot tactics." Expressen ↗
- Air traffic controllers went home just before the fatal crash. Aftonbladet raises the question of staffing coverage. Aftonbladet ↗
- Moderna Museet lent out paintings worth millions. Questions raised over the loan conditions. Svenska Dagbladet ↗
NO🇳🇴Norwegian Media
- United States warns of conflict over Taiwan. A shift in American rhetoric toward Beijing. NRK ↗
- "The right-wing wave still doesn't exist." Aftenposten questions the widespread interpretation of European election results. Aftenposten ↗
TR🇹🇷Turkish Media
- The power of the İsmailağa community in the Turkey–Africa–Syria triangle. An investigation into a network of alleged madrassas that has spread from Turkey into Africa. Cumhuriyet ↗
- Inheritance dispute in the Menzil community deepens rift between brothers. A power struggle within the influential religious network. Cumhuriyet ↗
- Minister boasted about dormitory occupancy, girls were left out. Successful female students did not get accommodation. Cumhuriyet ↗
- Spending on city hospitals exceeded 100 billion lira over eight months. The costs of the public-private partnership model. Cumhuriyet ↗
- Textile industry awaits new policy after losing 364,000 jobs in four years. Cumhuriyet ↗
IE🇮🇪Irish Media
- Cabinet likely to discuss risk assessment and citizenship. The topic returns to the government table. RTÉ ↗
- Transport minister criticizes road safety authority for saying too little after fatal M9 motorway crash. A dispute over transparency. The Journal ↗
- Financial sector lacks enough fraud experts, warns Compliance Institute. The capacity gap is growing. The Irish Times ↗
- Final wind-down of the state "bad bank" included average severance pay of €147,000 per employee. The Journal ↗
- Mary McAleese sharply criticizes GAA sports association after leaving integration steering committee: "A slap in the face for women." Irish Independent ↗
FI🇫🇮Finnish Media
- A small left-wing party could decide AfD's access to power. Helsingin Sanomat breaks down the arithmetic around BSW. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
- Harry and Meghan may not return to royal duties. The palace's decision is final. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
- Journalists who were filming a volcanic eruption in Indonesia have gone missing. The search operation continues. Yle ↗
- It pays to skip alcohol even before becoming pregnant. New recommendation for prospective parents. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
BA🇧🇦Bosnian Media
- Shocking testimony at trial for crimes in Prijedor: "Almost everyone was killed in the same way." Radio Sarajevo ↗
- Mothers of Srebrenica back minister Konaković: "He showed that there are limits when it comes to the dignity of victims." Klix.ba ↗
- European Union invests €400 million in new insulin factory in Germany. Radio Sarajevo ↗
- New information about the postman from Čapljina who disappeared with pensioners' money: via Sarajevo to Turkey and then to Thailand? Klix.ba ↗
BG🇧🇬Bulgarian Media
- Google announces it will worsen its search engine's performance to avoid EU fines. The company openly speaks of reduced service quality as a response to regulation. Dnevnik ↗
- Presidential candidate Yotova's initiative committee: cadres from GERB, BSP and DPS, public figures and athletes. The campaign is taking shape, one committee member has already been removed. Dnevnik ↗
- GERB heeded Borisov and won't enter a "fratricidal war" over the presidency. A strategic retreat ahead of the election. 24 Chasa ↗
- Sofia police chief Peltekov: fentanyl is pushing heroin out of the market. A shift in the capital's drug scene. 24 Chasa ↗
LT🇱🇹Lithuanian Media
- Latvia bans imports of toys and books made in Russia: "We shouldn't be supporting them." Sanctions logic extends to everyday consumer goods. LRT ↗
- Argentina takes legal action against oil companies operating near the Falklands. The dispute moves to the courts. LRT ↗
- Peskov rejects European participation in negotiations: "Europeans are doing everything to make sure this war doesn't end." 15min ↗
- Men in Russia aren't taking chances — what they're grasping at to escape Putin's plan. A report on draft evasion; alongside it, "borscht inflation" in Russian shops. 15min ↗15min ↗
- National defense: companies admit most don't know what to do in a crisis situation. LRT ↗
SI🇸🇮Slovenian Media
🌍 Other countries
🇦🇱 Albanian media- Day one hundred of protests against the Trump family tourism project: demonstrators block intersections and a bridge, chant "Arrest Rama." Berisha condemned the police intervention as "inhuman brutality." Gazeta Shqiptare ↗Balkanweb ↗
- Divjaka has been protesting for forty days: "We don't want to merge with Lushnja, this is our municipality." Gazeta Shqiptare ↗
🇩🇰 Danish media
- Scientists fear that paracetamol during pregnancy shrinks children's genitals. The German and Spanish press write on the same day about a possible impact on daughters' fertility. Berlingske ↗Welt ↗
- Party leader purges the candidate list: "I will do everything to remove this type of candidate." Politiken ↗
🇺🇸 American media
- Tech company reveals first AI cyberattack by one government against another. It calls the case an unprecedented one of its kind. NBC News ↗
- New report shows the economic cost of ICE immigration raids. NPR ↗
- In New Hampshire it's clear: Pappas vs. Sununu in a duel that could decide the Senate. The Hill ↗
🇪🇪 Estonian media
- Over 1,659 days of war, Russia has damaged or destroyed 2,687 healthcare facilities in Ukraine. Postimees ↗
- Teachers begin wage negotiations with the state, targeting 2,304 euros. Postimees ↗
🇲🇰 Macedonian media
- Lavrov answers Europe: "If they attack us, the war will be short." Makfax ↗
- German finance minister: Germany cannot defend itself without new debt. Makfax ↗
- Politico: Kaja Kallas's idea for a defense expert group collapsed before it was even created. Makfax ↗
🇮🇸 Icelandic media
- Only about 28 percent of immigrants have basic reading literacy. Vísir ↗
- "There is nothing funny or normal about mocking the sovereignty of states." Reykjavík responds to Trump's renamings. RÚV ↗
🇲🇪 Montenegrin media
- Reuters: mass student-led protests mark a turning point in Serbia. Vijesti ↗
- Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first leader under Chinese rule, has died. Vijesti ↗
- Ukrainian official Vlasiuk: Russia is again using American processors in hypersonic missiles. Vijesti ↗
🇱🇻 Latvian media
- The European Union has allowed Ukraine to use part of the loan provided to purchase Patriot missiles. LSM ↗
- The government supported continued financial stabilization of the airline airBaltic. LSM ↗
🇲🇹 Maltese media
- Cardinal Grech warns: "We have hit rock bottom," yet insists hope remains. Newsbook ↗
- Illegal tobacco trade: the European Union is losing the fight. Newsbook ↗
🇱🇺 Luxembourgish media
- New Luxembourgish passports are overwhelming some airports. Readers can't cope with them. Luxemburger Wort ↗
- The "kissing disease" with a long shadow. An overview of the long-term effects of infectious mononucleosis. Luxemburger Wort ↗
🔎 What's worth its own article
- Google is deliberately degrading its search engine to escape EU fines. Neither Slovak nor Czech media write about this at all. It is a precedent for how a big platform passes the cost of regulation directly onto the European user — and it will hit anyone searching in Slovak.
- Piracy is returning to the Persian Gulf. While attention focuses on strikes and the price of oil, a security vacuum in the strait is being filled by pirate groups. The Polish counterpart — Kuwait exporting further via Hormuz — shows that the strait isn't blocked, just more expensive and riskier.
- The first AI cyberattack by one government against another. A case that the tech company called the first of its kind went unmentioned in the Slovak media space. It follows up on what we wrote about the cybersecurity risk of OpenAI's new model.
