25 NATO-led peacekeepers injured in Kosovo in clashes with Serbs outside municipal building (apnews.com)
Poland is marking the 80th anniversary of the 1943-44 massacre of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in regions that were under Nazi German occupation, and which are now part of Ukraine. (apnews.com)
Germany suffered its first recession since the start of pandemic, extinguishing hopes that Europe’s top economy could escape such a fate after the war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring. (archive.ph)
Ukraine war a critical issue in upcoming elections in Slovakia as Eduard Heger steps down (peoplesdispatch.org)
Leaked recordings expose shocking state corruption in ‘US governed’ Moldova (thegrayzone.com)
Half of Brits Don't Trust Met Police and Fear Arrest if They Join Peaceful Protests. A Shining Example of Western Democracy in Action. (www.bylinesupplement.com)
Ukraine's neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe (seymourhersh.substack.com)
Turns out that despite all the rhetoric, it's not clear how EU could actually decouple from China in practical terms (www.economist.com)
A powerful image of a village in western Germany being destroyed to expand this coal mine. (twitter.com)
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Priest, scientist on trial in Germany over climate protest (www.cp24.com)
Orban Ramps Up Anti-EU Rhetoric by Asking ‘What’s the Point?’ (archive.ph)
The giant black cloud hanging over Europe’s economic recovery (www.telegraph.co.uk)
‘Staggering number of adults turning to petty theft’ amid rising food prices (www.inverness-courier.co.uk)
Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out Has Been a Disaster (nationalinterest.org)
Waggonbau Niesky, the last producer of freight wagons in Germany goes insolvent. (www.tagesschau.de)
Brussels is set to use funds normally reserved for building roads in poorer EU states to boost weapons production across the bloc. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
France protests: More than 100 wild hogs hurt in May Day demonstrations (www.bbc.com)
Sanctions backfire: Europe pays more for banned Russian oil, resold by India - as EU wages fall (geopoliticaleconomy.com)
Council of Europe condemns Russia's forced transfer of Ukrainian children as 'genocide', says Red Cross must granted access to children (www.euractiv.com)
There is “evidence that deported children had faced a process of ‘russification’ through re-education in Russian language, culture and history", a resolution of the Council of Europe’s parliament says this week. The transfers of Ukrainian children were “clearly being planned and organised in a systematic way’ as...
EU foreign policy chief urges China's Xi and Brazil's Lula to travel to Ukraine to see the war "through the eyes of those who have been bombed" by Russia (www.euronews.com)
Both China and Brazil have positioned themselves as potential peace brokers in the war, but their ambivalent views have been widely criticised by Western allies as biased, incomplete and Russian-leaning. Now EU’s Josep Borrell says President Xi Jinping of China and President Lula da Silva of Brazil should visit Ukraine before...
UK company set up in name of top Putin official in Ukraine despite being under sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Saldo, a notorious puppet of the Kremlin in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, is listed as the owner of a UK company registered in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine since November last year, five months after his name was added to the sanctions list.
Two ultra-rightists who fought on the side of Ukraine were arrested with weapons after returning to France (www.leparisien.fr)
Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany (archive.ph)
Protesters storm Paris Euronext building in anger over pension law (www.reuters.com)
"Tracking phones and intercepting communications": Russian diplomatic facilities serve as SIGINT nests in Europe, investgation finds (vsquare.org)
Specialized equipment for signals intelligence (SIGINT) has been mounted in recent weeks on the roof of Russian facilities across Europe, from Warsaw to Budapest, Stockholm, or Brussels, which is linked to a massive network of espionage and capable of picking up the national security signals of the countries concerned. Russian...
