A Washington Post article from 21 March 2026 mentioned a staged assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, after a not very successful effort to leak a CCTV intimate tape in mid-March concerning the now chosen prime minister of Hungary, Péter Magyar. It also revealed that the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó would frequently leak confidential information from EU closed-door meetings to the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Serghei Lavrov.

In the early 1970s, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) was just an idea, conceived as a framework for official cooperation against cross-border crime. As criminal networks increasingly operated across national borders, EU countries recognised the need to work together for a safer Europe rather than separately.

What is the best way to celebrate Europe Day, if not by reflecting on the opportunities and rights the EU has given its citizens? The European Union is currently home to almost 450 million people.

Amid a popularity crisis, the loss of his Hungarian ally Viktor Orban, and ongoing student protests, Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić finds time to increase tensions with its neighbours, Croatia, Albania, and the unrecognised state of Kosovo.

Over the past year, a new consensus has taken hold in Brussels. The claim is that the EU is a ‘regulatory burden’ for companies that hinders growth and innovation. Commission President Von der Leyen, underlines it clearly: ‘we need simplification, we need deregulation. We need it on the European level.’

When people talk about transportation in the European Union, they often focus on trains. However, rivers and canals are just as important, even if they are sometimes overlooked.