For the first time in EU history, we have a European Defence Commissioner. The position is held by Andrius Kubilius, a Lithuanian politician and former prime minister who is a long-time friend of Ukraine.
From the first weeks of the Russian Federation’s full – scale aggression against Ukraine, special attention was focused on the assets of Russian oligarchs and companies.
United Europe did not emerge from a vacuum. Its birth was a response to World War II, which shattered the old world order and brought a new existential threat in the form of the Soviet Union and communism.
The Labour Party of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which won last year’s snap parliamentary elections, suffered a major setback in the 1 May local elections in England.
On May 2, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution determined that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) warrants classification as a far-right, extremist party.
On 4 May, Romania held the first round of presidential elections. The leader of the far-right AUR party, George Simion, achieved a surprisingly high result – 40.96% of the vote.