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Published on 04/04/2026 – 22:24 GMT+2 According to the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, in the first quarter of 2026, only 158 attempts to illegally cross the border were recorded, compared to as many as 3,306 in the same period in 2022. This represents a decrease of almost 96 per cent. According to the ministry, such a marked improvement in the situation is the result of consistent government policy and increased investment in state border protection. A key role was played by the actions of Border Guard officers, who secure the country’s eastern border on a daily basis. The…
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By Diana Resnik Published on 04/04/2026 – 16:57 GMT+2 Men aged between 17 and 45 now need approval from the Bundeswehr for longer stays abroad. Under the new Military Service Act, this applies to trips abroad lasting more than three months, the Defence Ministry has announced. The daily Frankfurter Rundschau was the first to report on the change. The rule is part of what is known as the Military Service Modernisation Act, which came into force on 1 January 2026. The law is intended to ensure that the Bundeswehr is fit for the future in terms of personnel and organisation. Plans…
Egypt will refuse to buy Russian shipments of grain sourced in occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Friday. “Spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who told me Egypt will no longer accept grain exported by Russia from our temporarily occupied territories,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram, adding that Cairo had expressed an interest in increasing grain imports from Ukraine. The move marks a major shift in Egyptian policy. The country is the world’s largest wheat importer, and in a recent interview Russia’s ambassador to Egypt said Cairo purchased more than 8 million tons of Russian grain in 2025. According…
In an interview with TG1, Meloni said she had chosen to travel to the Gulf “as a gesture of solidarity” with regional allies. But she admitted the trip also had the pragmatic goal of securing Rome’s access to the region’s oil. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which some 20 percent of the oil and natural gas that powers the global economy runs, is having a major impact on Italy. The Arab Gulf states supply the country with around 15 percent of the oil it consumes, and as prices have steadily risen during the last month Meloni’s government…
By Euronews Russia Published on 04/04/2026 – 14:00 GMT+2 Ukraine has a military presence in Libya and the attack on the Russian gas carrier Arctic Metagaz in the Mediterranean Sea was carried out by the Ukrainian military. This is the result of an investigation by French public broadcaster RFI. According to its two anonymous sources in Libya, more than 200 Ukrainian officers and specialists are stationed in the country. Some of them are based at the Air Force Academy in the city of Misrata, where Turkish and Italian forces are also stationed, as well as the US Africa Command and the…
Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Austria have asked the EU for energy companies to help alleviate the burden on consumers and taxpayers triggered by the war in the Middle East, using the extra profits that companies are accumulating thanks to rising fuel prices. The five Ministers of Economy and Finance wrote this in a letter addressed to EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, pointing out that actions taken at national level on excise duties must be accompanied by a joint effort. “It would make it possible to finance temporary relief, especially for consumers, and curb rising inflation, without placing additional burdens…
From the swift theft of three paintings from a museum in Parma to the recovery of a 2500-year-old gold helmet lifted from a Dutch museum last year, recent news has been peppered with pilfered museums and thieves with a penchant for masterpieces. Interpol’s most recent ‘Assessing Crimes Against Cultural Property’ report, revealed that Europe is a hotspot for art and cultural theft, with over 18,000 cultural objects reported as stolen in the region at the end of 2021. But after the quick and slightly inelegant dance of glass-smashing, painting-grabbing, and high-tailing it away from a museum, what do art thieves…
Rising energy costs fueled by Middle East tensions have pushed global food commodity prices higher for the second month in a row, according to Friday data from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. The latest FAO benchmark index, tracking monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of globally traded food commodities, rose to 1% above its level a year ago, highlighting how geopolitical tensions are pushing up production and transportation expenses, adding renewed pressure on global food markets. “The main issue we have right now is actually the impact of the conflict on energy and on fertilisers. So,…
Italy witnessed a rare and highly symbolic Good Friday ceremony on 3 April as Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum, the first time in decades that a pope has performed the full rite in person.