Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s government has extended Hungary’s Orbán-era ‘state of crisis due to mass migration’ until 31 December, rejecting NGO calls to let it expire. The move preserves the hard-line legal framework but complicates one possible route towards ending the country’s €1 million-per-day EU migration fine, while sparking outrage among progressive Tisza supporters.

‘Law and Justice has always been a centre-right party, a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists…a pro-American group supporting the Republican Party…and situated within the spectrum of the “traditional” political divide. In recent years, movements have emerged in Polish politics that have challenged Law and Justice’s hegemony on the right.’

Transgender activist and bartender Rihanna Kelver is being charged with felony aggravated assault in Wyoming for pulling a gun on a man who allegedly used a slur against him and shoved him to the ground. The case has angered his fellow LGBTQ activists across the US, who claim that he is only being prosecuted because he is a transgender woman.

Ulrich Siegmund heads into Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election with the AfD on 41–43 per cent, roughly double its 2021 result and around 20 points ahead of the governing CDU. Whether that delivers Germany’s first AfD state government may depend less on another surge than on whether BSW and the Greens cross the 5-per-cent threshold, with 26 per cent of voters still undecided in the final poll.

Hungary has again blocked the opening of two further Ukrainian EU accession clusters, marking the third failed attempt to approve the necessary screening results. The veto is less about the substance of the files than about leverage over Kyiv on Transcarpathian Hungarian rights, while Péter Magyar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy still have not held their planned bilateral meeting.

Social Democrats’ Magdalena Andersson is trying to turn Sweden’s final campaign week into Russiagate, accusing Ulf Kristersson of failing to address security concerns surrounding the Sweden Democrats. The attack comes as the so-called Tidö coalition has moved within the margin of error and Kristersson is preparing to bring SD into government for the first time.