🔁 What's Moving Europe Today
- Washington reports the destruction of five Iranian tankers, Tehran retaliated with missiles on a US base in Jordan. The loudest topic of the window — twenty-four newsrooms are writing about it. According to CENTCOM, this was a response to attempts to attack a US warship; the Iranian side names the Al-Azraq base as the target, and the Jordanian army reports it destroyed 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 it captured "one of the most advanced" American underwater drones in the Strait of Hormuz. Washington responded that the machine was broken. Digi24 ↗
- 🇵🇱 Meanwhile, Kuwait continues exporting oil via 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, but 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 it 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 on fire. Marco Rubio blamed Iran for the attacks, and the European Union called on the movement to stop all attacks. So the second strait — Bab al-Mandab — is now ablaze alongside Hormuz. 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇳🇱 ↗ · 🇵🇹 ↗ · 🇨🇭 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗ · 🇮🇸 ↗
- 🇦🇹 Wartime 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 claimed the recipe for AfD's success as his own, Wagenknecht is conceding a state premier from that party. The president spoke of a "really big evening" and claims he found a formula that worked in Saxony-Anhalt. AfD won 43.8 percent there and 39 of 83 seats — a win without a majority — and the dispute is precisely over who will form the state government. The Greens backed the BSW proposal, the Hesse state premier questioned the point of the party's vetting process, and the SPD is proposing a caretaker government of experts. 🇩🇪 ↗ · 🇦🇹 ↗ · 🇮🇹 ↗ · 🇫🇷 ↗ · 🇵🇱 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇳🇴 ↗ · 🇫🇮 ↗ · 🇬🇷 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇹🇷 ↗ · 🇧🇪 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗
- 🇩🇪 The Thuringian BSW faction dissolved itself the same day. The movement is falling apart just as 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 answered 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 sanctions its brand, and Chris Mason explains why. BBC News ↗
- 🇮🇹 Italy pulled out, the opposition speaks of a government without dignity. La Repubblica ↗
- A technical failure in air traffic control grounded more than a thousand flights in Britain, and the chaos is expected to last 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 flights 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 off its own coast. Irish Independent ↗The Mirror ↗
- Vučić called early parliamentary elections for October 25, and will dissolve parliament on Wednesday at noon. Reuters reads it as a concession to mass student protests. The president promised he would "gladly accept any outcome"; the opposition is regrouping, the civic movement Solidarity is running in the elections with SSP and Serbia Center, while PSG will not be running. 🇷🇸 ↗ · 🇲🇪 ↗ · 🇭🇺 ↗ · 🇧🇬 ↗ · 🇸🇮 ↗ · 🇸🇪 ↗ · 🇩🇰 ↗ · 🇪🇪 ↗ · 🇺🇦 ↗ · 🇭🇷 ↗
- 🇩🇰 Denmark expelled Serbian diplomats after the funeral of a convicted war criminal. The first direct diplomatic consequence of Mladić's funeral. Berlingske ↗
- 🇧🇦 Twenty-three MEPs are demanding a suspension of accession talks with Serbia. Croatian Prime Minister Plenković is taking credit for the European reaction: "Right after the funeral I called our representative in the EU." Radio Sarajevo ↗Klix.ba ↗
- 🇲🇪 EU Commissioner Kos explained why she cancelled her visit to Serbia. Vijesti ↗
- Norway buries King Harald V today, Zelenskyy arrived with the first lady and discussed winter air defense. With Støre he discussed 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 in 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 sums up security experts' warning. Expressen ↗
- 🇲🇩 The FSB reportedly arrested a Moldovan who allegedly tried to kill a Russian general. Chișinău claims it has not received an official notification. Ziarul de Gardă ↗
DE🇩🇪German media
- Publicist Michel Friedman: Merz does not fit the job description of chancellor. 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 proposes would be bankrupt in no time." Economic criticism of the party's program. Welt ↗
- Wadephul pushes Zelensky for Ukraine to buy more German weapons. Purchases as a condition for further support. Spiegel ↗
- Court bans immigration agency ICE from accessing tax data of migrants without a residence permit. First judicial curb on this practice. Spiegel ↗
- Rail strike in the Netherlands also hit Germany. Cross-border connections disrupted. Tagesschau ↗
- Anke Rehlinger wants to cap co-payments for nursing home costs. Care reform opens the autumn season. Die Zeit ↗
PL🇵🇱Polish media
- The United States made an unclear move against Poland and Hungary in immigration visa procedures. Warsaw has not yet received an explanation. Onet ↗Wirtualna Polska ↗
- Intelligence services coordinator Siemoniak held talks at CIA headquarters with John Ratcliffe, and passed on 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 sharply responded to Tusk: "You are pitifully confabulating." The dispute between the head of state and the prime minister has escalated. 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 laying off 470 people. Another blow to the Hungarian automotive sector. Telex ↗
- Hungary blocked Ukraine's EU accession negotiation clusters for the fourth time. It has not disclosed its demands. Kyiv Post ↗
- Orbán: "Debt slavery is on the horizon again." Rhetoric ahead of the budget season. Népszava ↗
- Pentagon: it pays to prepare for a long war. An official speaks of years, not months. Portfolio ↗
- Béla Skripeg, an ALS patient who fought for euthanasia together with Dániel Karsai, has died. A symbolic end to the campaign. Telex ↗
AT🇦🇹Austrian media
- The government opened its autumn work with a cabinet meeting. First session after the 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 rebuild public broadcasting. Kurier ↗
UA🇺🇦Ukrainian media
- Rutte: civilian casualties in Ukraine are the highest since May 2022, and delays in aid cost lives. Allies have allocated more than ten billion dollars over the past year to purchase American equipment, and nine countries announced new packages after Ramstein. 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 broke into 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 heating up. 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 "under threat". 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 declining performance among French students. Le Figaro ↗
- Dispute at the Eiffel Tower: Hindu movement claims it did not request different treatment of women. Female employees were pulled from their posts during the visit. Ouest-France ↗De Standaard ↗
- Smithsonian Institution chief Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from his position 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 the government office or the interior ministry. Nervousness is growing within 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 documents about the warning." New testimony adds to the claim that the prime minister was warned before October 7 by the president of the Emirates; his office has again denied it. La Repubblica ↗Siol ↗
- The AfD is targeting the state, judges are already in the crosshairs, and concerns about 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 right-wing direction." 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 ↗
- The anti-Semitism law sparked protests across Italy. Critics say the target is not antisemitism but dissent. Il Manifesto ↗
- The government is stuck on convening talks on the former Ilva. The steel crisis remains unresolved. Il Manifesto ↗
ES🇪🇸Spanish media
- Rabat seized a Spanish border zone, built a gate there and is blocking the return of Moroccans. A concrete incursion into the disputed area near Ceuta. ABC ↗
- The government slipped an €80,000 bonus for its Ceuta delegation into the unified command decree. The detail only surfaced 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 peninsula, 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 demands 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 ↗
- The CEOE employers' association postponed registering as a lobby and froze its relationship with the government for two weeks. Ministries are demanding "responsible statements" and limiting meetings for fear of their own law. ABC ↗El Mundo ↗
BE🇧🇪Belgian media
- Belgium was rapped again 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 self-employed workers. De Morgen ↗
- Neo-Nazis, a Stasi officer and a towel thief will sit 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 checks 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 into 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 sinking the 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 ↗
- In the final phase of life, elderly people are forced to move repeatedly: "Drastic and emotional." A report on the care system. AD ↗
GB🇬🇧British media
- Tens of thousands of teenagers are out of 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 around Brexit and move closer to the EU. A poll for The Independent. The Independent ↗
- Very hot drinks may 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 motion of no confidence 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 ↗
- Recovery plan payments 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 ↗
- The PSP and GNR police forces are meeting over new protests. Unions continue to pressure the government. CM Jornal ↗
- Minister: the 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 Lusophone world. Observador ↗
RS🇷🇸Serbian media
- Redžepi called on the 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 at 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 aircraft falls in flames and explodes. Residents say the pilots saved them. Protothema ↗To Vima ↗
- Romania shut down two nuclear reactors due to low Danube water levels. Drought has affected the plant's cooling. Naftemporiki ↗
- Germany is rearming, the far right is rising, and in Poland memories of the 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: the first information about the waste arrived back in 2023, politicians did not disclose it. An indictment is approaching. N1 Croatia ↗
- Croatian students improved in math and science in the PISA test. An exception to an otherwise poor European average. 24sata ↗
RO🇷🇴Romanian media
- Parliament is investigating a Constitutional Court judge's private jet flight to Mykonos. The costs are being scrutinized, and former PM Ponta defends himself: "I am a free and independent person." Pro TV Stirile ↗HotNews ↗
- The British army will mobilize veterans as part of preparations for war. A shift in defense planning. Digi24 ↗
- Ireland has opened an investigation against the X network, which faces a huge fine. European pressure on Musk's platform is growing. HotNews ↗
- Artificial intelligence is helping criminal gangs develop illegal tobacco networks, warns European Union auditor. According to the report, the Union is losing the fight. Digi24 ↗Vijesti ↗
- Court has allowed 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 are claiming priority. Tages-Anzeiger ↗Financial Times ↗
- Rice cakes put to the test: big differences in harmful substances, a problem especially for small children. SRF ↗
SE🇸🇪Swedish media
- Social Democrats leader attacks: The Sweden Democrats are infiltrated by friends of Putin. The pre-election campaign is intensifying, and a bandmate of Åkesson's was found to have sold Nazi music. Dagens Nyheter ↗Dagens Nyheter ↗
- The center is now leading in the elections. Polls have turned just before the vote. Expressen ↗
- Andersson and Åkesson clashed on public television: "Parrot tactics." Expressen ↗
- Air traffic controllers went home shortly before the fatal crash. Aftonbladet raises the question of staffing coverage. Aftonbladet ↗
- Moderna museet lent out paintings worth millions. Question marks over the loan conditions. Svenska Dagbladet ↗
NO🇳🇴Norwegian media
- The United States warns of conflict over Taiwan. A shift in American rhetoric toward Beijing. NRK ↗
- "The right-wing wave still doesn't exist." Aftenposten challenges 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 madrasas that has spread from Turkey to Africa. Cumhuriyet ↗
- An inheritance dispute in the Menzil community deepens the rift between the brothers. A power struggle within an influential religious network. Cumhuriyet ↗
- The minister boasted about dormitory occupancy, while 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 ↗
- The textile industry awaits a new policy after losing 364,000 jobs in four years. Cumhuriyet ↗
IE🇮🇪Irish media
- Cabinet is likely to discuss risk assessment and citizenship. The topic returns to the government table. RTÉ ↗
- Transport minister criticizes road safety authority for not saying more after fatal accident on the M9 motorway. A dispute over transparency. The Journal ↗
- The financial sector lacks enough experts to fight fraud, warns the Compliance Institute. The capacity gap is growing. The Irish Times ↗
- The final winding-down of the state "bad bank" included severance payments averaging €147,000 per employee. The Journal ↗
- Mary McAleese sharply criticizes the GAA sports association after leaving the integration steering committee: "A slap in the face for women." Irish Independent ↗
FI🇫🇮Finnish media
- A small left-wing party could decide AfD's path 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's worth giving up alcohol even before getting pregnant. New recommendation for future parents. Helsingin Sanomat ↗
BA🇧🇦Bosnian media
- Shocking testimony at the trial for crimes in Prijedor: "Almost everyone was killed the same way." Radio Sarajevo ↗
- Mothers of Srebrenica supported Minister Konaković: "He showed that there are limits when it comes to the dignity of victims." Klix.ba ↗
- The European Union is investing €400 million in a new insulin factory in Germany. Radio Sarajevo ↗
- New information about the postman from Čapljina who disappeared with pension funds: via Sarajevo to Turkey and then to Thailand? Klix.ba ↗
BG🇧🇬Bulgarian media
- Google announced it will worsen the functioning of its search engine to avoid European Union fines. The company openly speaks of reducing service quality as a response to regulation. Dnevnik ↗
- Initiative committee of presidential candidate Yotova: 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 elections. 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 has banned imports of toys and books made in Russia: "We shouldn't be supporting them." Sanctions logic has moved to everyday consumer goods. LRT ↗
- Argentina has taken legal action against oil companies operating near the Falklands. The dispute is moving to the courts. LRT ↗
- Peskov rejects European participation in negotiations: "The 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; plus "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- Fortieth day of protests against the Trump family's tourism project: demonstrators block intersections and a bridge, chanting "Arrest Rama." Berisha condemned the police crackdown 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. 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 a precedent 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
- In 1,659 days of war, Russia has damaged or destroyed 2,687 healthcare facilities in Ukraine. Postimees ↗
- Teachers begin wage negotiations with the state, aiming for 2,304 euros. Postimees ↗
🇲🇰 Macedonian media
- Lavrov responds to Europe: "If we are attacked, 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: student-led mass protests mark a turning point in Serbia. Vijesti ↗
- Tung Chee-hwa, the first leader of Hong Kong under Chinese administration, 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 provided loan to purchase Patriot missiles. LSM ↗
- The government backed 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 ↗
🇱🇺 Luxembourg media
- New Luxembourg passports are overwhelming some airports. Readers can't process 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's a precedent for how a major 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 is focused on strikes and the price of oil, pirate groups are occupying the security vacuum in the strait. The Polish counterpart — Kuwait exporting further via Hormuz — shows that the strait is not blocked, just more expensive and riskier.
- The first AI cyberattack by one government against another. A case that a 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.
