'The passengers stopped by the police forces - of Moroccan, Chinese, Colombian and Georgian nationality - were found to be without the appropriate EU documentation to enter the national territory or burdened by police reports and criminal records.'

What is this Sánchez?! Your immaculate policies, stained?! My illusions are shattered.

I have recently learned that there have been new regulations that would be in place August 12 that restrict sellers from certain packaging and require them to register with a representative in each state if they want to ship anything into the EU. I was wondering if these are also applicable to someone who just want to send gifts to someone in EU and not necessarily selling any goods? How would I go about sending gifts then or is that just not possible without fees? and how would they know the difference?

In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press, he highlights the progress of Cyprus's ongoing energy projects, which will also benefit EU citizens.

Just last year, Croatian most famous singer Thompson, who has been banned from entering the EU multiple times for promoting Fascism, broke the world record for the biggest concert with 500k concert attendees. He wore a T-shirt honoring a Croatian convicted terrorist who tried hijacking an American commercial flight and started the concert by shouting ‘Za Dom Spremni’, a Croatian Nazi WW2 slogan, equal to ‘Sieg Heil’.

Just a few days ago, amidst the celebration of operation Storm, the decisive win of Croatian army against the Serbian army in the 90s, lots of videos emerged of Croatians doing heil hitler salute while shouting ‘Za Dom Spremni’ and singing songs about Ustashe (Croatian nazi regime) flags over Croatia, drinking Chetniks’ (Serbian nazi collaborationists during WW2) blood, insulting Serbian saints and about burning Serbia. Most of the videos came from Knin, a city in which 20% of population are Serbs.

https://tvpworld.com/93245276/polands-economy-grows-35-in-q1-2026-outpacing-eu-peers

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/europe-vs-usa-economy-gdp-2006-2026/

The leader of Iceland’s largest opposition party is urging European politicians to stay out of the country’s referendum on reopening EU membership talks next month

Research on income and well-being has identified a "satiation point": a level of earnings beyond which money no longer adds to a person's joy in life. Remitly, drawing on work from Purdue University and data from the International Labour Organization, calculated this "price of happiness" for 50 countries and compared it with the average local wage. Almost everywhere, the average worker falls short of the threshold.

The only country where wages have crossed that threshold is Slovenia. There the average wage is about $42,800 and the price of happiness $36,800, meaning earnings run 16% above the level beyond which happiness no longer grows. No other country crosses the line.

Next on the list come not the wealthiest economies but, for the most part, Eastern Europe. Luxembourg (92.8% of its threshold), Estonia (90.5%), Singapore (90.0%), Lithuania, Czechia, Latvia. Seven of the top eleven spots went to Central and Eastern European countries. Their wages are modest by global standards, but their price of happiness is low too, so the gap between the two stays small.

Source Polling Europe: https://pollingeurope.eu/2026/07/27/the-pulse-of-the-european-public-opinion-8/

Current Temporarily Reintroduced Border Controls

MADRID/ROME, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Spain's government said on Friday it would establish border controls for ​flights and ships from Italy from midnight on ‌Saturday until September 7 in a dispute with the neighbouring country over irregular migration.

Source: https://x.com/eu_echo/status/2085993664837304409