Among the Kremlin’s many parrots, we’ve picked one to show how little credibility many of the “experts” touring Europe’s TV studios actually deserve. Since February 2022, John Mearsheimer has been repeating the same prediction. Ukraine would soon collapse.

🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 #Italy and #Germany slammed #Spain’s migrant amnesty as a security threat. Yet they have quietly regularised hundreds of thousands of migrants themselves, according to the Financial Times: nearly 1.1 million work permits in Italy, plus tens of thousands more in Germany and Greece.

According to Turkish media, the #Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor has requested the lifting of Özgür #Özel’s parliamentary immunity as part of a bribery investigation.

On Sunday night in #Sofia, dozens of Italian Jewish teenagers from Rome and Milan were trapped inside their hotel while a neo-Nazi mob shouted “Sieg Heil” at the doors and tried to force their way in. Police moved them on; they came back.

The EU’s extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council met today by videoconference on #Ceuta, convened by the Irish Presidency. Much ado about nothing: #Spain handled the situation.

Yesterday in Ankara, Etimesgut mayor Erdal Beşikçioğlu was arrested along with 40 other people. Since the local elections of 31 March 2024, 36 mayors from Turkey’s main opposition party have been jailed.

This is the part of #Ceuta’s story they don’t want you to see. Faten Ben Amar #ElAzizi was a talented Moroccan footballer with a bright future ahead of her. She dreamed of playing the game she loved, and she was already recognised as one of #Morocco’s rising stars.

#Brazil has blocked a planned visit by US officials reportedly selected by the #Trump administration to question the country’s electoral system, denying them entry visas. One principle stands above all: no foreign power has the right to interfere in another nation’s democracy #odyssey

This weekend #Tirana’s boulevard filled again — the 64th consecutive day of protest. Summer heat, holidays, fatigue: none of it has thinned the crowds. Albanians are asking for clean institutions, protected coastline and a political class that answers for its choices.

Yesterday, #Morocco’s Interior Ministry confirmed what independent analyses had already indicated: the entry of at least 50,000 people into #Ceuta was not spontaneous.

Seventy-two bodies have been recovered off #Ceuta and seventeen along the Moroccan coast, including children. Yet politics focuses elsewhere: Italy suspends Schengen, Trump exploits the tragedy, and Europe argues over responsibility.

Hundreds of firefighters deployed through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism are standing shoulder to shoulder against the wildfires in Spain and France. Their courage and commitment show Europe at its very best: solidarity in action.

🇹🇷 #Istanbul has lost its opposition majority. The municipalities of Tuzla, Çekmeköy and Şile have shifted to the AKP, with #Erdoğan personally welcoming their mayors. The circumstances are troubling:

If every migration incident triggers another “emergency summit”, what was the Pact on Migration and Asylum for? Europe already has a common framework.

🇪🇺🇯🇵 #Japan’s decision to join #HorizonEurope sends a powerful signal. In difficult times, when nationalism and isolation are gaining ground, we choose openness, cooperation and freedom of research.

After yet another night of Russian missile and drone attacks on #Kyiv, which killed and injured civilians and once again targeted residential areas, Europe cannot stand by and watch.

#Ceuta was almost back to normal within a day. The propaganda was not. #Trump turned a Spanish border into a prop for the US midterms, #Musk and the MAGA echo chamber amplified it, and #Weber’s EPP embraced the script within hours.

🇪🇺 From yesterday, EU consumers have a new right: the right to repair. Broken phones, laptops and appliances should be easier and cheaper to fix, with spare parts and repair information made available even after the legal guarantee expires.

Ceuta in 24 hours: nearly 50,000 people crossed from Morocco, 48,300 have already returned, and 57 people lost their lives at sea. Spain regained control of its external border and called on Europe for solidarity.

By 6 p.m. today, Spain had already returned 48,300 of the roughly 50,000 people who entered Ceuta since dawn yesterday—clear evidence that European rules work when they are properly applied.

Almost 49,000 people crossed into #Ceuta this week, marking the largest migratory influx into #Spain since 2021 and placing considerable pressure on one of the European Union’s external borders. Spain should not be left to face this challenge alone.

A Russian missile destroyed the home of an ordinary family in #Ukraine’s Dnipro region, burying parents and children beneath the rubble. These are #Putin’s missiles. This is Putin’s war. Remember this whenever someone claims he seeks peace.

Yesterday, Brussels drew a clear line: under the AI Act, facial recognition in publicly accessible spaces is prohibited. Yet Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government is pushing a decree that would allow police to scan faces in squares, stadiums and during demonstrations, with biometric data […]

Amirhossein Nobakht Pardasti was 21. Detained in Tehran in January, he was reportedly cut open with blades so that the skin bearing his tattoos could be torn away, and then shot. His family recovered the body from Kahrizak covered in marks of torture.

European football has finally found its voice against Gianni #Infantino’s unacceptable plan to privatise the #FIFA World Cup. #UEFA’s reaction was necessary, and we fully support it, says Sandro Gozi, EDP Secretary General. We have been warning about this drift for months.

Sandro Gozi, EDP Secretary General, and Pina Picierno, EP Vice-President and EDP MEP, hail France’s decision to expel Xenia #Fedorova, a leading figure in Kremlin state media. “Propaganda from an aggressor state is not information, it is a tool of political pressure and hybrid warfare,” says Gozi.

Prime Minister Edi Rama says the “Flamingo Revolution” is an example of disinformation and foreign interference, warning that hostile actors exploit protests, viral content and public anger to destabilise Albania as it moves closer to the EU.

Yesterday, Gianni #Infantino achieved the extraordinary: he made #UEFA look like the responsible adult in the room after it publicly criticised #FIFA’s reported plan to sell part of the commercial rights to the FIFA World Cup to an investment fund backed by Donald #Trump’s family.

Yesterday in #Romania, PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu publicly expressed openness to the prospect of a future coalition with AUR. The silence of the European socialist family is increasingly difficult to understand. Some principles should never be subject to political bargaining.

President #Vučić has warned Serbian students that if he wins the next election, he’ll “laugh in their faces from detention, from prison, and from the grave.” A sitting head of state, talking about jail cells and graves instead of policy.