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EU Commission seeks to release Hungary’s frozen funds (opens the original)
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The European Commission on Wednesday proposed unblocking €4.2 billion in cohesion funding for Hungary, frozen in 2022 over rule-of-law violations under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government. Cohesion funding is an EU program aimed at supporting economic, social, and territorial reforms in lower-income member countries. Hungary, along with Poland, Italy and Romania, was the main recipient. Yet the EU froze 55 % of the funding in 2022 over corruption and public procurement concerns in Or
Macron pushes for energy truce between Ukraine and Russia (opens the original)
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a moratorium on energy sector strikes between Ukraine and Russia on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Monday. Following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, the French president said on X they had discussed pooling efforts “to secure a moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure.” Macron also discussed “the prospect of an energy truce” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later on Monday ev
‘There are no decent parties left’: Sham elections underscore Putin’s grip on Russia (opens the original)
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Russia is holding its first parliamentary elections this weekend since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — a vote that sees the opposition scrambling to give voters options in a field increasingly narrowed by the Kremlin. The shadow of the war looms large over proceedings. As Ukraine intensified strikes on Russian territory and showed greater tolerance for civilian casualties, Russia’s Supreme Court in August barred Yabloko — the country’s only openly anti-war party — from
MEPs lift immunity from Polish far-right leader charged with Holocaust denial (opens the original)
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Members of the European Parliament voted Tuesday to waive the parliamentary immunity of far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun, who is facing Holocaust denial charges in Poland. Braun, who leads the ultranationalist Confederation of the Polish Crown (KKP) party, is accused of having denied the crimes of genocide committed by Nazi Germany in Auschwitz during a public debate in Warsaw in September 2025. Braun was already charged with genocide denial in a separate case, after he said in a July 2025 radio int
Merz’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ comments trigger defamation complaint from far-right AfD (opens the original)
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party said it had filed a defamation complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz over a speech in which he said its “remigration” plans amounted to “ethnic cleansing.” “The insinuation that the AfD parliamentary group — which stands firmly on the grounds of the German constitution — is committed to ethnic cleansing, i.e. ultimately to expulsions and murders, is so clear that the judiciary must take action here,” Stephan Brandner, a senior AfD member of
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