Left-wing groups and union-backed networks mounted coordinated blockades and street violence in Giessen to hinder the founding congress of AfD’s youth wing, Generation Deutschland. Subsidized NGOs helped mobilize masked agitators who built barricades and attacked journalists, politicians, and vehicles, while police intervened only partially, exposing publicly funded pressure against the AfD.
Nearly three years after Qatargate, Brussels is rocked by another major scandal: Belgian authorities have detained former EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini and top diplomat Stefano Sannino in a fraud probe involving the EU’s diplomatic academy. The probe is already fuelling calls for accountability at the highest levels of the Commission.
The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline has fallen to $2.998 in the United States, according to AAA. The last time the average gas price was below $3 was on 11 May 2021; and it even climbed up to as high as $5.016 in the summer of 2022 during the Biden administration.
‘The Russian–Western relationship is basically about geography.’
Budapest’s General Assembly has called on the government to resume negotiations with the mayor, arguing that sustainable budgeting, enshrined in Hungary’s constitution, can only be upheld if talks continue. The appeal came during an extraordinary session held at the Budapest Transport Corporation’s bus depot in Kelenföld.
Hungary’s newest student-built satellite, Hunity, has successfully reached orbit. Developed at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the small spacecraft carries scientific instruments, experiments and a camera as part of an educational and research mission.
‘…without intellectual and political leaders who are able and daring enough to go beyond the surface-level symptoms of the infocracy, our capacity to reform society and adapt to a post-infocratic world becomes increasingly limited. It would be like fighting the weather: we might cool our houses with air conditioning, but we cannot stop the heat from entering in the first place.’
‘Modern conservatism will never produce another Buckley. The current climate is too hostile to showy intellectualism and the media too fractured for any one man…to dominate the conversation.’
‘From the above, it is clear that “Filmes” was the “social contact” of the Hungarian intelligence service who attended Münch’s reception and who was also the director of the TV series Századunk—a description that fits only one person, namely Péter Bokor.’
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok opened the exhibition Guardians of Eternity – The Terracotta Warriors of China’s First Emperor at the Museum of Fine Arts, calling it a display of treasures that shaped the Far East for millennia. He said the event symbolizes Hungary’s enduring cultural affinity with Asia and the strength of ties with China.