Kalocsa-based Smarttable CEE has agreed to take delivery of €1.5 million worth of Chinese ZTT energy-storage systems as Hungary races to expand battery capacity after August’s energy crisis exposed the limits of its solar-heavy grid. The deal lands just as both Budapest and Brussels tighten scrutiny of Chinese-linked energy technology and infrastructure.

Viktor Orbán’s grip on Fidesz is being tested from inside and outside as Tibor Navracsics builds a moderate alternative, János Lázár demands renewal and the new asset-recovery agency prepares to investigate the Orbán era. That makes September the most important month since April, potentially deciding whether Fidesz survives intact or begins to break apart.

Mothers are declaring ‘Same, Lindsay’ in a bizarre TikTok trend, identifying with Lindsay Clancy’s descriptions of postpartum distress during her trial for killing her three children. The sympathy campaign, which has sparked harsh backlash from conservatives, has gone so far that one woman says she now asks dates whether Clancy should go to jail—and walks out immediately if they answer yes.

Die Linke and the AfD are reshaping Berlin’s political map ahead of September’s election, with the radical left leading on 22 per cent and the hard right party tied with the CDU on 18. Their combined support has almost doubled since 2023, while the SPD has collapsed to 12 per cent and the governing parties that once dominated the capital now command only 30 per cent.

The Save Europe Act has passed 700,000 signatures less than three months after launch, keeping the remigration campaign on course for its one-million target despite Brussels refusing to register it as an official ECI. Co-founder Eva Vlaardingerbroek says the next steps are to reach one million and take the European Commission to court over the decision.

At least four migrant boys have been raped and remain hospitalized in Ceuta, as the number of victims in the aftermath of the mass invasion continues to rise. Judicial proceedings now cover at least 14 victims, many of them underage, while police have deployed specialists to protect thousands of minors still in the enclave, where the child protection system is operating at 4,600 per cent of normal capacity.

Hungary’s first St Stephen’s Day under Péter Magyar showed both continuity and change in its foreign relations. Washington remained firmly present, Zelenskyy paired his greeting with an invitation to Kyiv, and Pakistan and India joined the list. Israel, by contrast, disappeared after having prominently celebrated its friendship with Orbán’s Hungary in 2025.

Two Afghan illegal immigrants have been found guilty of a knifepoint rape in Barking Park, England, while two other Afghan migrants appeared in court the same day accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on a train to London. The cases broke amid ridicule of new Home Office guidance explaining rape and sexual harassment to asylum seekers, sharpening the political backlash.

Péter Magyar’s first St Stephen’s Day as prime minister has been overshadowed by allegations that the company awarded the celebrations contract had been discussing the project weeks before procurement formally began. The controversy, which dominated the day, undermined Tisza’s symbolic, regime-change-themed 20 August and left Magyar unusually silent.

Ceuta’s rape epidemic continues to deepen, with JUPOL warning that groups of Moroccan and North African illegal migrants are dragging girls into secluded mountainous terrain and rape them. 15 cases have already been confirmed since the July mass invasion, while officials are racing to place hundreds of vulnerable migrant girls into emergency accommodation.