According to Eurostat’s numbers, 193 out of 100,000 people were incarcerated in Hungary in 2024, which was the highest rate in the EU. However, Hungary also has a lower crime rate than many Member States.

Despite the Iran crisis, soaring oil prices, and gasoline nearing record highs, the Dow has closed above 50,000 points again, for the first time since 11 February. Yet while Wall Street remains resilient, rising fuel costs may pose a growing political threat to President Trump.

A dual Egyptian Hungarian citizen allegedly ran a human smuggling ring from his Budapest barber shop, prosecutors say, moving illegal migrants from Hungary’s Serbian border to the Slovakian border up north in 2023. Five accomplices were charged after authorities dismantled the operation.

The police interrogation footage has just been released in the case of Mia Bailey, a biological man identifying as a woman who killed both of his parents in June 2024 in Washington City, Utah. In the interrogation, he admits that he committed patricide and matricide because his mother tried to cancel his gender reassignment surgery.

In his first video address since leaving office after 16 years, former PM Viktor Orbán touted the successes of his tenure, such as the second-highest economic growth in the EU, income tax exemption for mothers of three or more children and people under 25, and Hungary’s ‘work-based economy’. He also described the new Tisza government as ‘liberal’, despite PM Magyar identifying as a conservative.

An ‘intersectional work and social club’ in Berlin, Germany, that proclaims it is only open to ‘BIWoC and TIN*BIPoC’ (meaning people who are not white or men) has received €662,450 in funding from a federal German programme, The European Conservative has uncovered.

Antoinette Fernandez, the person in charge of the UK Green Party’s reparations programme that would give monetary compensation to the descendants of slaves in the British Empire, was revealed to come from a family of Nigerian monarchs on her mother’s side that made fortunes on commissions on slaves they sold to the Transatlantic slave trade.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has pledged to withdraw France from NATO if elected president in 2027, calling the alliance a tool of US influence. His remarks come amid rising internal tensions within NATO, as criticism grows from both the European far-left and the American right.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has seen an increased interest in his 2028 prospects as President among bettors, with him even becoming the favourite to win on the decentralized crypto prediction market Kalshi. Can Secretary Rubio become the first Latino President of the United States?

In the local council elections taking place across England last week, over 100 of the councillor seats were taken by Muslim candidates running as independents. The Muslim population has been steadily increasing in the United Kingdom for decades, especially in England.