🔁 What is moving Europe today
- Dozens of delegations walked out of Netanyahu's UN speech. He called the accusation of genocide "the greatest lie of the century" and Erdoğan a "tyrant," and defended the attack on Iran as one of the easiest decisions of his life. The most widely covered story of the day — twenty-five newsrooms wrote about it. Our article → 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇲🇰 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗
- 🇮🇸 Iceland's representative remained seated while the hall emptied. Heimildin ↗
- 🇹🇷 A spokesperson for Erdoğan's party called Netanyahu a murderer on live television. Milliyet ↗
- 🇷🇸 Vučić was among those who stayed in the hall. Klix.ba ↗
- 🇺🇸 More than a hundred people were detained outside the UN headquarters, including Susan Sarandon. NBC News ↗ · Observador ↗
- Vučić announced that he will resign on Sunday at around 8 p.m., along with an explanation. He had announced the date on 15 September; now he has added the hour. 🇷🇸 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗
- 🇷🇸 That same evening, the election commission took note of the withdrawal of the "Izbor naroda" list, submitted by the Narodna Srbija coalition, in favor of the student list. Aleksić justified the decision by saying that Serbia is at a historic turning point. Nova ↗
- 🇷🇸 Brnabić opened the first pre-election debate on N1 with an attack on the television station on which she was a guest. Rector Mirjana Nikolić told her that the SNS is taking Serbia back into the past. Nova ↗
- Trump hosted Xi Jinping at the White House and spoke of a "great friendship"; Xi described it more modestly as "mutual respect" and warned against the wrong stance on Taiwan's independence. Both sides announced a new trade arrangement. 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇵🇹 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇪🇸 ↗ · 🇲🇰 ↗
- 🇺🇸 Republican Senator Thom Tillis on the visit: "It's a WTF moment." CBS News ↗
- 🇺🇸 Xi brought two giant pandas, which will go to the zoo in Atlanta. CBS News ↗
- A coalition of eighty countries is demanding at the UN that the Strait of Hormuz be opened; on Wednesday sixty ships passed through it, carrying the most oil in a single day since the beginning of July. Meanwhile, the Houthis report an attack on Riyadh and on Saudi Aramco facilities in Yanbu; Saudi Arabia intercepted six ballistic missiles. 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗
- 🇬🇧 Iran offered the US a new seven-day ceasefire. Financial Times ↗
- 🇹🇷 Tehran warns that the war could spread to the Indian Ocean. Habertürk ↗
- 🇺🇸 The US Senate rejected a resolution that was meant to call on Trump to end the war. Portfolio ↗
- Oil rose by ten percent in forty-eight hours, and the fuel crisis has moved into domestic politics. Macron does not rule out tax cuts, Villepin demands an absolute cap of €2.50 per liter, and the Valenciennes area has introduced three months of free public transport. 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇱🇹 ↗ · 🇱🇺 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗
- 🇳🇴 In Norway, 205 oil and gas industry employees have gone on strike. NRK ↗
- 🇱🇺 A French filling station near the Luxembourg border stopped selling fuel in protest against prices. Luxembourg Times ↗
- 🇫🇷 The Trump administration wants to ban diesel exports for ninety days. RFI ↗
- Trump urged member states to withdraw from the International Criminal Court and, according to Belgian sources, is preparing sanctions against the entire institution. One country complied. Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten devoted his first UN speech to it: "Undermining the court concerns all of us." 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗
- 🇧🇪 "The EU must show its teeth over the attack on the Criminal Court." De Standaard ↗
- Brussels is "intensifying its response" to Russian threats against Spain, Italy and France and is working closely with NATO. According to Swedish sources, Russia is planning drone attacks against Spain, France or Italy; Macron warns that, according to several signals, Russia may call up as many as three hundred thousand new people into the army. 🇪🇸 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗ · 🇱🇻 ↗
- 🇵🇱 Poland scrambled fighter jets; according to unofficial information, a drone exploded about ninety kilometers from the border. An alert was declared in two voivodeships. Onet ↗
- 🇭🇷 A Croatian court approved the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian suspected of sabotaging Nord Stream. Klix.ba ↗
- 🇫🇷 France has opened its first criminal investigation linked to the Russian shadow fleet. Ouest-France ↗
- Giorgia Meloni's government approved a school decree: a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools and a cap of thirty percent foreign pupils in first grades. The draft also included removing a child from the family if the parents refuse to learn Italian; the Quirinale recommended a milder version. 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇲🇰 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗
- 🇮🇹 Il Manifesto calls it a "half-racist school." Il Manifesto ↗
- A judge twice ordered that CNN, Politico and MS NOW be allowed back into the White House; Trump nevertheless again refused to admit CNN and MS NOW to the state dinner with Xi Jinping. He complained at the same time that two networks did not broadcast the visit "made for television." Our article → 🇬🇧 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇱🇻 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗
- 🇨🇭 NZZ: the media need Trump, and Trump needs the media. Neue Zürcher Zeitung ↗
- A priest died and four people were injured in a knife attack at a monastery in Jarosław, Poland; the detained Ukrainian had arrived from Germany. The Ukrainian embassy condemned the attack and called for the pain not to turn into hatred. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗
- 🇵🇱 A parish in Puławy announced preventive police patrols around the church, and the Primate of Poland called for mutual responsibility. Wirtualna Polska ↗Onet ↗
- France will send soldiers to protect an oil port in Saudi Arabia and air defense systems to the Red Sea. Mélenchon demands that parliament vote on it: "If the base is hit, what will we do?" 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗
- Ottawa's city council unanimously decided to rename "Trump Avenue," a street in a residential neighborhood. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe justified it by pointing to Trump's hostility toward Canada. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗
- 🇮🇸 An Icelandic commentator is proud of the Canadians' reaction and is boycotting American products. RÚV ↗
Tier A — geopolitical relevance for Slovakia
DE🇩🇪German media
- Saxony's interior minister wants to abolish the fundamental right to asylum. "Capacity must be the yardstick," the minister says, calling for tougher asylum law. n-tv ↗Welt ↗
- At the Axel Springer Award ceremony, Peter Thiel attacked part of the media as a "left-wing hate factory". Thiel predicted that, without change, "the left will keep winning" in Germany. Die Zeit ↗Welt ↗
- In the dispute over the fine for the platform X, the US government has sided with Elon Musk. Washington is thus stepping into a European regulatory proceeding. Spiegel ↗
- The Hamburg Senate wants to relax drug legislation because of crack. The aim is to make it easier to help addicts. n-tv ↗
- The presumed-consent model for organ donation is back on the table in the Bundestag. Tagesschau ↗
- The Berlin CDU parliamentary group has elected Evers as its leader, while Miersch, the leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, does not rule out a coalition with the Berlin Left. The Left won the election to the Berlin House of Representatives with 25.7 percent, but part of its Berlin organization faces criticism over antisemitic positions. Tagesschau ↗Welt ↗
- Vice President of the Central Council of Jews: antisemitism has become normalized. Die Zeit ↗
- Starbucks will close 250 locations in North America. Handelsblatt ↗
PL🇵🇱Polish media
- Sikorski warns that Russia is preparing "something big" this year. Sikorski also had a message for Lavrov: "Tell that to your boss." Onet ↗Lietuvos Rytas ↗
- The Military Gendarmerie intervened directly at the General Staff — an officer was detained on suspicion of pedophilia. The officer is alleged to have distributed pedophilic content. Wirtualna Polska ↗Onet ↗
- A cyberattack on the supplier Medyc may have exposed the data of up to a million patients. Onet ↗TVN24 ↗
- Tusk has hardened his stance in the dispute over the Constitutional Tribunal: "I've already been polite." Wirtualna Polska ↗
- The takeover of TVN's owner may turn out more expensive — a court in California has not ruled. Rzeczpospolita ↗
- Moscow has called the Polish authorities' policy over Rzeszów "barbaric". The city is a logistics hub for aid to Ukraine. Wirtualna Polska ↗
- Trump greeted the American Polonia and named "great Poles": "Without them, there might not have been a USA." Onet ↗TVN24 ↗
- According to Rzeczpospolita, district heating is the biggest challenge of Poland's transformation. Rzeczpospolita ↗
HU🇭🇺Hungarian media
- The government is considering drawing on the EU defense loan. Defense Minister Ruszin-Szendi Romulusz added that, unlike in previous practice, the money is not meant to favor the same companies. 24.hu ↗
- National Cultural Fund scandal: "585.6 million forints went down the drain" on a single performance. Actor Molnár Áron claims that the organization KMTG applied for money from the fund with false income data. 24.hu ↗HVG ↗
- Former president of the Kúria Baka András: the UN is too often inactive when great powers break the rules. Baka speaks of a crisis of confidence in the organization. Népszava ↗Portfolio ↗
- Magyar Péter danced with locals in Rome and hopped on a scooter. HVG ↗
- An MRI machine broke down at St. John's Hospital; Health Minister Hegedűs Zsolt speaks of "lying political incitement". 24.hu ↗
- End of free wellness access for MCC students; the Kolozsvár accommodation has emptied out. Index ↗Telex ↗
- The energy efficiency program continues, "in the better case already without toll collectors". Apparently a reference to intermediary commissions. Telex ↗
- The forint strengthened sharply in the evening and then weakened again. Portfolio ↗
AT🇦🇹Austrian media
- In her UN speech, Minister Meinl-Reisinger called for a rules-based order, and on ZiB2 she said that Israeli settlement policy violates international law. Kleine Zeitung ↗Kleine Zeitung ↗
- Eurostat: Austria has significantly more burglaries than other EU countries. Kleine Zeitung ↗
- Overcrowded prisons: should inmates be released earlier? Prisons are at 110 percent capacity, and experts are calling for alternatives to pretrial detention. Kleine Zeitung ↗Kurier ↗
- A rush on the "old" civilian service — more applications than ever. Kurier ↗
- An Austrian Airlines plane struck its tail on the runway at London Heathrow. Kleine Zeitung ↗
- A new artificial intelligence is meant to decipher thousand-year-old text fragments. Der Standard ↗
UA🇺🇦Ukrainian media
- The special services have obtained the Russian plan for winter strikes on the energy sector — with the forces assigned to each facility precisely laid out. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal announced this. Interfax Ukraine ↗Postimees ↗
- Russia is targeting internet infrastructure. An adviser to Zelensky responded to the question of whether Ukrainians should expect an internet outage. Kyiv Independent ↗Ukrayinska Pravda ↗
- Zelensky announced a "very important" agreement on a new batch of Patriot missiles. Details were not released. Kyiv Independent ↗
- South Korea accused Zelensky of disclosing a classified operation involving the handover of North Korean prisoners. Censor.NET ↗Danas ↗
- Hungary does not rule out taking part in the "Carpathian Eight" and reports progress in the dialogue on national minorities. Ukrayinska Pravda ↗Censor.NET ↗
- Zelensky says China is supplying Russia with "waiting" drones that fly up to a window and wait for people. Censor.NET ↗
- The Ukraine Recovery Conference will take place in Tallinn in 2027. Interfax Ukraine ↗
- According to a report, the European crackdown has halved the number of shadow fleet ships sailing under false flags. Kyiv Independent ↗
Tier B — EU heavyweights
FR🇫🇷French media
- Metropole Bordeaux faces forced administration over "extreme indebtedness." Thomas Cazenave speaks of a historic debt. Le Monde ↗Le Figaro ↗
- The launch of Grand Paris Express metro lines 16 and 17 is being postponed by at least a year. Le Monde ↗
- An English teacher at a private nursery school in Paris has been remanded in custody on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and violence against twenty-two children. Ouest-France ↗
- In the Aramburu trial, the defendant's lawyer describes the case file as "tainted" by a fixation on the far right. RFI ↗
- Pope Leo XIV is coming to France, and hundreds of thousands of people await him in Paris. It is the first papal visit to the city in eighteen years. France 24 ↗BBC News ↗
- In Milei's Argentina, almost one in three people is poor. France 24 ↗
- Renault-Nissan affair: Renault's lawyers speak of an "empire of concealment" around former chief Ghosn. Ouest-France ↗
- Russia is trying to gain a foothold in the Indian Ocean via Madagascar. It comes a year after the uprising against Rajoelina. RFI ↗
IT🇮🇹Italian media
- Meloni warns her own MPs: "There will be consequences if the electoral law doesn't pass." She is hunting for "traitors" and "spies" among her own ranks; if the reform fails, a vote should be held in January, otherwise not until spring. La Repubblica ↗Il Manifesto ↗
- Tax map: a third of taxpayers bear the entire burden of income tax, while nine million pay nothing. Meanwhile, a jeweller declares a lower income than a teacher. La Repubblica ↗La Repubblica ↗
- The government has challenged Emilia-Romagna's end-of-life law, arguing that it violates state competences. TGCom24 ↗
- Alarm over juvenile crime: the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor is to be given powers. La Repubblica ↗
- Death near the Colosseum: seven under investigation for negligent homicide. The worker was working alone and no one was watching him from the ground. Corriere della Sera ↗
- Al-Sharaa opens the door to Israel, Netanyahu closes it. Il Manifesto ↗
- Thirty-one US lawmakers accuse Trump of interfering in Brazil's elections. Bolsonaro Jr. flew from the US to Brazil on the plane of the founder of Banco Master. ANSA ↗ANSA ↗
- Colombia has severed diplomatic ties with Iran. ANSA ↗
Tier C — alternative perspectives
CH🇨🇭Swiss media
- What AfD politician Siegmund is seeking from the FPÖ in Vienna — and what he doesn't find in Switzerland. An analysis of the alliance between right-wing populists. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
- The Council of States is against allowing the footwear group to use the Swiss cross — "Lex On" is to be reversed. Neue Zürcher Zeitung ↗
- The National Council has cleared the way for Switzerland's first space law. SRF ↗
- Plans to rebuild Gaza for $2.5 billion within six months — is it more than an empty promise? SRF ↗
- New euro banknotes: the end of fictitious bridges, and Maria Callas and the kingfisher are coming. Tages-Anzeiger ↗
LU🇱🇺Luxembourg media
- Workplace accident rates have fallen to a record low, despite seven deaths. Luxembourg Times ↗
- Where Luxembourg must step up its environmental policy. Luxemburger Wort ↗
- A restaurant operator is remanded in custody after further attacks — he brushed off domestic violence as "just a game." Luxemburger Wort ↗
ES🇪🇸Spanish media
- The Guardia Civil stopped about ten attempts to breach the fence in Ceuta. According to ABC, emergency-room doctors are overwhelmed, patients with infectious diseases leave without being examined, and NGOs under investigation face accusations of mistreating minors. ABC ↗ABC ↗ABC ↗
- The eviction of eighty-seven-year-old Maricarmen has become the face of the housing crisis. Experts doubt that the government decree would have prevented it; Junts is asking for tax breaks in exchange for supporting it. ABC ↗La Vanguardia ↗
- According to ABC, the PSOE has turned against Zapatero over the "shameful" origin of his jewellery. According to ABC, Judge Calama will reject the letter rogatory to Saudi Arabia with which the former prime minister wanted to substantiate it. ABC ↗ABC ↗
- A new war over PISA: the OECD insists that its method is valid and calls the Spanish study limited. Meanwhile, Illa raised the salary of the second-highest-ranking official in the education department by fifteen percent. El Mundo ↗ABC ↗
- According to El Mundo, Illa is circumventing a Supreme Court order to label schools in Spanish. The manual says that "the language of signage is Catalan, bilingualism is not envisaged." El Mundo ↗
- Sánchez's U-turn opens the way for De Cos to the European Central Bank. Otherwise, according to ABC, Spain would be left out for years. ABC ↗
- Chinese cars are sharply increasing their sales and pushing European rivals into layoffs. El Mundo ↗
- Valdecarros, which ABC calls Europe's largest urban development project, is in Madrid. More than 28,000 public housing units for 150,000 people. ABC ↗
Tier D — Weaker News Cycle
BE🇧🇪Belgian Media
- Belgium's cybersecurity service uses Chinese artificial intelligence — "very strong and impressive." Het Laatste Nieuws ↗
- UN rapporteur Albanese faces criticism after objecting to armed support for Ukraine. "It risks being politically undermined." De Standaard ↗
- According to De Standaard, 96 per cent of fashion brands exploit workers — from Chanel to Shein. De Standaard ↗
- "The Russian threat is real, but spreading panic only helps Putin." A counterpoint to French and Polish warnings. De Standaard ↗
- "When work stops paying off, the far right wins." De Standaard ↗
- Commentary in De Standaard: a "genocidal rogue state" at Eurovision? The public broadcaster VRT doesn't mind — it "focuses on connecting." De Standaard ↗
- A three-year-old child died at a school in Antwerp after choking during lunch. La Libre ↗
- First confirmed occurrence of a devastating insect in Europe. La Libre ↗
PT🇵🇹Portuguese Media
- The fire near Odemira has two active fronts, and homes had to be evacuated in Sabóia. More than a thousand responders are deployed to fires across the country, more than 340 of them near Sabóia, and a firefighter was seriously injured in Resende. RTP ↗RTP ↗RTP ↗RTP ↗
- The Foreign Ministry is appealing to its Iranian counterpart to prevent an escalation of tensions. RTP ↗
- "Much more than just the presumption of innocence applies to the director of the criminal police." CM Jornal ↗
- Is the price of votes rising just like the price of homes? Pre-election analysis. Observador ↗
- A young man described how his grandfather found the mobile phone of the missing cyclist Pedro Paiva. CM Jornal ↗
IE🇮🇪Irish Media
- Jason Knight is the first Irish international to say that the match against Israel should not be played. The Journal ↗
- The US will have to pay for the new Greenland military bases, Denmark says — despite Trump's promise of "zero cost." The Journal ↗
- McDowell wants migrants who have an Irish citizen in their family exempted from the proposed residency rule. Irish Examiner ↗
- Sixty Garda stations will undergo a reform of their approach to the public. Irish Examiner ↗
- Women aged 50 to 65 are leaving the labour market earlier than men. RTÉ ↗
NL🇳🇱Dutch Media
- Minister Van Weel apologised to the House twice — for statements about unprocessed criminal complaints and about the Court of Audit report. He kept his post "with a scratch on his shield." De Telegraaf ↗NU.nl ↗
- Police ended a protest against the asylum centre in Kesteren and detained several people. NOS ↗
- Employers are struggling with rising stress-related absence: "It needs to be caught early." NOS ↗
- Parents searching for the missing found 1,600 milk teeth in Mexico. Mass graves are multiplying in the country. NOS ↗
- A Dutch committee ruled that the euthanasia of a two-year-old child was justifiable. VG ↗
🌍 Other countries
GB🇬🇧British media
- Andy Burnham arrives at his first Labour conference as prime minister, where new policies and speculation about an early election are expected. Kemi Badenoch warned the Tories that an election could come "within months". BBC News ↗Daily Mail ↗
- 781 migrants crossed the English Channel in a single day, according to the Daily Mail. Daily Mail ↗
- Oracle has to pay data-centre investors even though the site has no electricity. Financial Times ↗
- Broadband provider TalkTalk could go into administration within days, according to the Daily Mail; concerns about national security are being raised. Daily Mail ↗
- A new test cuts brain tumour diagnosis from weeks to hours. BBC News ↗
- NHS analysis: A&E delays may be causing a thousand deaths a week. The Mirror ↗
- The food and drink trade deficit is the largest since 2000 — £21 billion. After the heatwave, the prices of butter and cheese may also jump. The Guardian ↗The Independent ↗
- Oil companies face accusations of pushing for tax relief after "cashing in" on the Middle East crisis. The Independent ↗
RO🇷🇴Romanian media
- The Cernavodă power plant may not restart until mid-October — "we have a falling flow rate," says Cristian Bușoi. Adevărul ↗
- The trial over annulling the decree naming Siegfried Mureșan as prime ministerial candidate will be heard on Monday. Judge Olimpiea Crețeanu has already suspended five decisions of Bolojan's government. G4Media ↗
- The first nine AAV-7 amphibious vehicles are entering service with the 307th Marine Infantry Regiment. Adevărul ↗
- Minister Oana Țoiu likened the relationship with the US to a "milkshake" whose ingredients can no longer be separated. "The love is still there." Libertatea ↗
- "Pact against freedom": a tsar, a guru baroness and a plan to run Europe from St Petersburg. Adevărul ↗
- A leading Russian banker warns: "They are trying to set the money aside, telling themselves — they'll take it from us anyway." HotNews ↗
- A Ukrainian official allegedly hid bribe income in cryptocurrencies, with a drone tender in the background. Adevărul ↗
GR🇬🇷Greek media
- At the UN, Mitsotakis struck a moderate tone towards Turkey, but stood firm on the casus belli and the law of the sea. "Greece is a country that builds bridges, not a state that creates problems." Protothema ↗Naftemporiki ↗
- Amnesty calls for the abolition of the US immigration agency ICE over "widespread human rights violations". Protothema ↗
- At the UN, Netanyahu showed the pagers that killed Hezbollah fighters: "Do you remember them?" Protothema ↗
- Wall Street posts a third day of losses under the weight of bonds, with hopes in the Middle East providing support. Naftemporiki ↗
- The dispute over Article 74 of the Fisheries Code continues in parliament; the marathon debate was adjourned. Naftemporiki ↗
TR🇹🇷Turkish media
- Operation in thirteen provinces against obtaining citizenship with forged documents: twenty-six arrested. Cumhuriyet ↗
- COP31 President Murat Kurum launched a resilient cities initiative in New York and announced the first pilot countries. Milliyet ↗Habertürk ↗
- Minister Fidan attended talks on supporting peace and unity in Libya. TRT Haber ↗
- Amendment to the remote work regulation. Habertürk ↗
RS🇷🇸Serbian media
- Vučić met with Lavrov and hopes a gas agreement will be signed in the coming days; with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng he spoke about a "steel friendship". Vijesti ↗Kurir ↗
- Plenković told Vučić that instead of repenting, he is continuing an unfounded campaign against Croatia. Index.hr ↗
- German ambassador von Beckerath: the course of the elections and the campaign will influence Serbia's European path. N1 Serbia ↗
- The SMATSA air traffic control union speaks of the worst crisis since its founding because of party-based appointments. N1 Serbia ↗
- Supporters of the ruling party disrupted the reception of student cyclists in Niš. N1 Serbia ↗
HR🇭🇷Croatian media
- On Friday, the Sabor will vote on banning the disconnection of electricity for vulnerable customers. Index.hr ↗
- The HDZ rejected the SDP's proposal for the immediate expulsion of pupils after violence. Index.hr ↗
- Trade unionists demand higher pay for personal assistants; the minister promises changes. HRT ↗
- Britain told Iran that it will not tolerate threats and hostile activity on its territory. Index.hr ↗
BA🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina media
- Germany is investigating a 105-year-old man on suspicion of complicity in Nazi murders — he was reportedly a guard at a prisoner-of-war camp. Klix.ba ↗
- In a "villa of horrors" in Spain, suspects from Serbia were detained; a torture chamber was also found. Klix.ba ↗
- In the empty Maracanã, a handful of fans chanted the name of Ratko Mladić. N1 Bosna ↗
SI🇸🇮Slovenian media
- The National Assembly passed a law on a new body for prosecuting corruption and organised crime. Delo ↗
- Attempting to lure children for sexual purposes also becomes a criminal offence; MPs also approved a ban on certain symbols on the buildings of public institutions. Siol ↗24ur ↗
- What did investigators find at Hajdinjak's? Gold and other allegedly incriminating evidence. RTV Slovenija ↗
MK🇲🇰Macedonian media
- A bill is being prepared in the US to prevent withdrawal from NATO. MKD.mk ↗
- German media write about Schengen for the Western Balkan countries. MKD.mk ↗
- Gerasimovski was elected vice-president of the SDSM and called on the party to close ranks. Nezavisen ↗
BG🇧🇬Bulgarian media
- Foreign Ministry: the declaration on Ukraine does not fully express Bulgaria's position. Dnevnik ↗
- According to 24 Chasa, the new minimum wage will harm up to half a million workers, by as much as €876 per worker per year. 24 Chasa ↗
- Bulgaria relies on Poland for the maintenance of both its Soviet MiG-29s and its new F-16s. 24 Chasa ↗
LT🇱🇹Lithuanian media
FI🇫🇮Finnish media
- President Stubb: Ukraine needs broader Starlink access so that it can attack Russia. Yle ↗Večernji list ↗
- The credibility of Finland's debt brake is cracking as elections approach. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
- Data-centre construction site managers shouted and forbade workers from sitting down — Tio Toivonen now warns others. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
SE🇸🇪Swedish media
- A Russian man detained by the Security Service (Säpo) is to be extradited to the US. Expressen ↗
- Sweden's strategy in Greenland: find Russian submarines. Svenska Dagbladet ↗
- Residents of a city occupied by the Russian army: "We eat weeds to survive." Dagens Nyheter ↗
NO🇳🇴Norwegian media
- The NHO employers' association demands action on electricity prices: “Many companies are frustrated.” Aftenposten ↗
- Labour took down a webpage about interest rate cuts on the day rates rose. Aftenposten ↗
- The man who was shot at Trump's 2024 campaign rally has died. VG ↗
IS🇮🇸Icelandic media
- “Welcome to downtown, everything here is in English.” A language debate about the touristification of Reykjavík. Morgunblaðið ↗
- Cancer is on the rise among younger people; certain symptoms should be watched for. Vísir ↗
EE🇪🇪Estonian media
- Ukraine is attacking Russian troops with an Estonian medium-range drone. Postimees ↗
- State payroll costs are rising sharply — and Postimees asks why. An editorial adds: “They promised brutal cuts, we got a brutal deficit.” Postimees ↗Postimees ↗
- A second American fighter jet has crashed in Germany within five days; the pilot escaped by a hair. Postimees ↗
LV🇱🇻Latvian media
MD🇲🇩Moldovan media
- Spînu on Energocom's request for a gas tariff increase: “Don't talk about an unprecedented period; prices are three times lower than in 2022.” Newsmaker ↗
- Only 35 percent of Moldovans actively verify a dubious piece of news, the country's first media literacy study has shown. Ziarul de Gardă ↗
- Drone fragments have been found in Briceni, near the Ukrainian border. Newsmaker ↗
AL🇦🇱Albanian media
- House arrest for the head of the SHISH intelligence service has, according to lawyer Eugen Beci, shaken national security — “the pyramid of information has collapsed.” Gazeta Shqiptare ↗
- The 117th protest demanding Rama's resignation has ended; protesters promise there will be more of them tomorrow. Balkanweb ↗
- According to Gazeta Shqiptare, a French magazine is opening another scandal around Rama — the affair is tied to the AKSHI agency, which Rama directly oversees. Gazeta Shqiptare ↗
ME🇲🇪Montenegrin media
- Montenegro has approved a report on introducing visas for Russian, Belarusian and Turkish citizens from 1 November. N1 Serbia ↗
- Costa called for reform of the UN Security Council, and Abbas promised the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in twenty years. Vijesti ↗Vijesti ↗
DK🇩🇰Danish media
- Ninety-eight municipalities are launching a major plan to save democracy “before it's too late.” Politiken ↗
- The Copenhagen Metro broke a passenger record in a single weekend. Berlingske ↗
MT🇲🇹Maltese media
- The Labour Party has been ordered to leave its club in Valletta within thirty days. Newsbook ↗
- A Malta Air flight landed in Manchester as it was running low on fuel. Newsbook ↗
US🇺🇸American media
- The Pentagon is investigating how a shipment of F-35 fighter parts ended up in China. Republican lawmakers are concerned. CBS News ↗The Hill ↗
- Trump's border czar Homan: ICE is “not going anywhere.” The Hill ↗
- Chinese ambitions in artificial intelligence: automated factories, freely available models and a growing challenge for the US. NBC News ↗
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- Romania's Cernavodă power plant will not restart until mid-October at the earliest, because the Danube's flow is dropping. It is the same mechanism that shut down both of its reactors this summer and cut the output of Hungary's Paks. Neither Slovak nor Czech media mentioned it this week. Adevărul ↗
- Albania placed the head of its own intelligence service under house arrest, and protests demanding the prime minister's resignation were held for the 117th time. Lawyer Eugen Beci says that "the pyramid of information has collapsed"; the country's security apparatus has lost its leadership amid a political crisis. Gazeta Shqiptare ↗
- The Romanian dispute over the appointment of the prime minister continues: on Monday, a lawsuit against the presidential decree goes to court. The case was assigned to a judge who has already suspended five decisions of Bolojan's government. G4Media ↗
*Illustrative photo: Berlaymont, seat of the European Commission in Brussels, Wikimedia Commons. Author: EmDee. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.*
