Society

The tunes from Budapest, Warsaw and Sofia underscores deepening East-West and North-South divisions inside the EU

Weekend’s events across France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and elsewhere are seen uncoordinated but thematically similar cost-of-living and anti-austerity protests

Maxime Prévot said Belgium's consul general to the Palestinians, French and Polish diplomats, and Catholic representatives were among those attacked

Trump and Vance framed the violence as the predictable result of “importing the third world”- turning French disorder into midterm ammunition

The Secretary for War’s execution live streaming proposal has added to the already long list of challenges faced by the Republican candidates in the midterms 

Large-scale looting took place, with around 300 shops ransacked across France as opportunistic delinquents and ultra-left casseurs exploited the marches

Groups of black-clad, masked and hooded rioters - identified by authorities as ultra-left “casseurs” operating in black bloc style - systematically attached themselves to the marches

“We are on the cusp before Putin’s Russia and China bring the real chaos inside America”

The Slovak prime minister vowed that his country will not recognise Kosovo

Police clashed with protesters in Tirana, as hundreds gathered outside the education ministry, chanting “Rama, resign!”

PM Sébastien Lecornu described the demonstrations as no longer a pure student movement but one sliding into “urban violence”

The condemnations underscore concern that the seizure further narrows the space for independent broadcast journalism ahead of anticipated elections