Voters who feel “everything is going to hell” may be flocking to AfD, but a senior economist in Saxony-Anhalt warns that Germany’s greenest, fastest-ageing region could end up poorer and more isolated under their rule.
Donbas defence taken over by elite officers with radical pasts (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,646)The appointment of Biletskyi and Prokopenko to lead more than 100,000 troops could decide whether eastern cities like Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Dobropillia hold—or fall—under intensifying Russian assaults and long‑range missile strikes.
The probe into Hungary’s wildly-overpriced ventilator deals risks becoming a litmus test for whether the new Tisza government is truly ready to confront the Orbán-era system that siphoned off billions — and to face the geopolitical fallout of challenging a former foreign minister.
Ukrainians pound Russian refineries, with ordinary Russians queuing 11 hours for a few litres of fuel, in a country once dubbed as being a giant petrol station.
Ukraine battlefield becoming one vast grey zone, as Russian units penetrating deeper (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,642)As small Russian and Ukrainian assault groups slip past the drone wall and trade villages in bloody back‑and‑forth raids, commanders on both sides are losing sense of where the front line actually runs.
Russians infiltrate last stronghold before Sloviansk, as North Korea supplies devastating new missiles (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,639)As small Russian units slip into Mykolaivka street by street, exhausted Ukrainian defenders, foreign-trained deserters, and terrified civilians brace for a possible assault on Sloviansk, backed by new, vastly more destructive North Korean missiles.
Even with the lowest emissions forecast, wildfires would ravage a surface area 39 percent larger by the end of the century than they currently do, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) estimated.
Intellectual property and copyright laws were developed to protect what people make. So what happens when a machine ‘makes’ something? Or when it is involved in making something? Who owns what a machine makes? How much human input is needed to make machine-generated content ‘human’? EUobserver sat down with copyright scholar Daniel Gervais to find out.
Russia is adapting its drone-warfare strategy, with faster and deadlier ‘Shaheds’ (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,636)As Moscow floods Ukraine with faster Shahed “drone-missiles”, built with smuggled Western tech, Kyiv races to improvise new defences, while civilians from Chernihiv to Odesa pay the price.
In a war where whole cities vanish one by one and elderly residents calmly say they have “nothing left to live for”, Bucko’s journey from tearful rookie to hardened veteran exposes the quiet emotional toll behind every frontline report.
As Austria’s leaders insist Russia’s war means longer duty for young men, critics warn the plan quietly doubles as a cheap-labour fix for struggling hospitals and emergency services.
Ukrainian drones wipe out elite US brigade in drills, as Europe bankrolls Kyiv and US aid falls to zero (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,632)As Washington cedes both military aid and battlefield know-how to Europe and Ukrainian instructors, Moscow probes for breakthroughs around Chasiv Yar and Kostyantynivka that could redraw the eastern front.
Germany’s spies, long mocked as passive note‑takers, are suddenly being groomed for a far more dangerous role – one that even some of their political backers now fear has “overshot the mark”.
Not even the energy crisis or the extreme heat could slow down Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar and his party’s, Tisza’s, transformation of the political system. Although not without missteps, the new prime minister followed through on the campaign he launched in April to replace the president of the republic, completing it by mid-August.
Silence ended: Ukraine reveals its largest liberation of territory in four years (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,631)Ukraine’s stealth advance has forced Russian troops, warships, and missile batteries onto the defensive, potentially easing pressure on frontline communities and cities far from the front.
Jet-powered Russian drone could cause harsh winter for Ukraine (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,629)As Russia floods the front with faster Geran drones and more Iskander missiles, Ukrainian commanders warn that this winter’s air war could overwhelm already stretched air defences and critical infrastructure.
With fake videos posing as BBC, ARD, or major German newspapers flooding X, TikTok, and Bluesky, millions of German voters risk making decisions in September based on AI-generated lies targeting Kremlin-critical candidates.
As Hungary struggles through an energy crisis, prime minister Péter Magyar is fighting off Fidesz attacks, recovering billions from an Orbán-linked era, and facing controversy over who really controls the country’s public media.
A newly created office with sweeping powers could soon test whether Hungary’s change of government means real accountability for the oligarchs who grew rich under Orbán.
The UK’s new PM is hard not to like. However, calls to drill in an untapped oil and gas field, alongside an unrealistic budget, could turn the tide against him all too quickly.