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The Christopher Street Day parade took place on the Straße des 17 Juni, or Street of June 17, in the Tiergarten park and Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. A photo published by German tabloid Bild (like POLITICO part of the Axel Springer group) showed a white van with a smashed hood. According to regional media, the man drove the van into a crowd on one of paths in the Tiergarten park. Both Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the attack. Wegner wrote on X: “It is an attack on our free and open society — after a peaceful…
After a successful debut at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection has opened at Paris’ Jeu de Paume arts centre. Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost private photography collections, the exhibition presentsmore than 300 photographs selected from 7,000 works gathered by the couple over 30 years. Some critics have described the show as a passage through time that tracing the development of photography from the 1950s to the present day. Sir Elton John began collecting photography in 1991, drawn to the medium’s ability to capture reality with…
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By Lena Roche Published on 26/07/2026 – 7:30 GMT+2•Updated 7:33 A car ploughed into a crowd celebrating Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride event on Saturday night, killing one person and leaving at least 16 others injured. The incident occurred at around 10 pm. Three people remain in a life-threatening condition. According to initial information, a vehicle drove into a crowd on Lennéstrasse. The car then collided with a tree before the suspect apparently managed to flee. Berlin police have since announced that they had identified a suspect who they said is “known to the police” and “believed to be associated with…
Published on 25/07/2026 – 21:49 GMT+2 Children wander through a maize field, in Hungary, near the Romanian border, yet their parents remain calm. These adventurous youngsters aren’t lost – they’re exploring Central Europe’s largest maize maze. This year, organisers have carved storybook characters, a castle and a unicorn shape into the 4.5-hectare maize field at Kiszombor. The design was created by Dávid Nagy on his computer in a spreadsheet, and the maize plants were cut back while they only reached knee height. That made it easier to see the whole layout, and drones helped with the final tweaks. Children get…
Published on 25/07/2026 – 17:52 GMT+2 Thirty days have passed since the two earthquakes, of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, shook northern Venezuela within just 39 seconds on the night of 24 June. What the authorities described at the time as an unusually rare seismic phenomenon, a seismic doublet, has, as the weeks have gone by, turned into one of the worst natural disasters the country has experienced in more than a century. A month on, the figures are still moving, although at a much slower pace than in the first few days, and there are still gaps the government has…
Romanian fighter jets on Friday and Saturday morning shot down two drones that were violating the country’s airspace. On Saturday morning, Romanian radar “detected another unauthorized penetration of the national airspace by a drone operating in the vicinity of the Ukrainian border” and two Romanian F-16 jets shot it down in an unpopulated area close to the border, the Romanian defense ministry said in a statement. Romania already shot down another drone on Friday. Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said that the drone shot down on Friday “was a Shahed-type drone, the same kind Russia launches, night after night, against…
By Euronews/Ács Gábpr Published on 25/07/2026 – 15:45 GMT+2 The time is set for Hungary’s Fidesz party to break from opposition politics and establish a new “resistance politics,” former PM and party leader Viktor Orbán stressed in a speech on Saturday. Speaking at the Bálványos Summer University, Orbán, who was ousted from government after 16 years following elections in April, said there was no longer time for the party to dwell on the election loss and that it must turn its attention to defending Hungary’s freedom, which he claimed was under threat. Orbán said he believed that those who voted for…
Published on 25/07/2026 – 16:06 GMT+2•Updated 16:07 The Central Bank of Russia expects inflation at 6–7% in 2026 “due to the significant increase in fuel prices that has already occurred”. Previously, the regulator had expected it to slow to 4.5–5.5%. Inflation expectations among households, businesses and financial market participants have risen. Their persistence at elevated levels may impede a sustained slowdown in inflation, the Bank of Russia said in a press release. “The fuel situation falls into what is known as supply shocks,” admitted Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Bank of Russia, at a press conference on the same…
Nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated because of the fires in southwestern France out of which more than 167,000 are in Gironde, the department of Bordeaux, and around 30,000 in the nearby Landes department. French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday announced that he requested the activation of an EU emergency mechanism, which has prompted other EU countries including Portugal, Croatia, Slovakia and Sweden to send airplanes and helicopters to help France. “Europe stands with France and Spain against the devastating wildfires that are hitting them,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote in a social media post on Saturday,…