A Berlin emergency nurse has described how treating members of Arab criminal clans can turn hospital wards into security operations, with police alerts, relatives flooding facilities and staff taking precautions against intimidation. His account comes as official figures show clan-related crime rising in Berlin, with 952 offences recorded across the city in 2025.

Hungary’s government has ordered a full audit of the Hungary Helps Agency, with every contract and completed payment set to be reviewed as part of a wider reset of the country’s flagship humanitarian programme launched under Viktor Orbán. Deputy Foreign Minister György László Velkey said the agency would continue operating and that a public competition had been opened for the position of chief executive.

Between 100 and 200 mainly Moroccan illegal migrants have begun a hunger strike in Ceuta, demanding asylum, transfer to mainland Spain and ‘equal treatment’. The protest comes as hundreds of Moroccan applicants receive negative decisions, while the Spanish enclave’s mayor-president declares there will be ‘no regularization, no asylum and no transfer to the Peninsula’.

‘Meet your new neighbor, America,’ Alberta separatists declared as they promoted an October referendum that could set the province on a path towards a later independence vote. The oil-rich conservative stronghold is being branded the ‘Texas of the North’, while separatist groups increasingly cultivate links with the United States under Donald Trump.

Former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s father has offered a ‘large quantity of stone’ for emergency works at the Paks nuclear plant, joining a growing wave of corporate contributions from businessmen linked to the former Fidesz era. His offer follows pledges from Garancsi-, Szíjj- and Tiborcz-linked firms and others as Hungary races to stabilize Danube water levels and avoid the shutdown of the plant.

Greece’s hard-line ‘prison or return’ migration policy is beginning to show measurable results, with 599 migrants choosing voluntary return rather than risk imprisonment under the new illegal-stay regime. Total returns rose 20 per cent in the first half of 2026 and forced returns by 41 per cent, making Greece an early test case for the toughest version of the EU’s new Return Regulation.

Hubert Kós closed the European Aquatics Championships with a third gold on Sunday, winning the 200m individual medley in a national-record 1:54.24. The 23-year-old had already taken gold in the 200m backstroke and 4x100m freestyle relay, helping Hungary finish fifth in the medal table with 17 medals, ahead of host nation France, despite being the smallest nation in the top five.

Budapest’s Festival of Folk Arts will mark its 40th edition with the United States as guest of honour, linking the four-day event at Buda Castle to celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary. Eighteen US artists will showcase traditional crafts, while visitors can help create a new tapestry inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s famous rattlesnake motif.

Europe’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary was consecrated on Saturday in Konotopie, Poland, where around 2,000 worshippers gathered for the Feast of the Assumption. Privately funded by billionaire Roman Karkosik as a votive offering, the project arrives as Poland, a fundamentally deeply Christian country, wrestles with secularization and declining Catholic practice.

The Spanish Guardia Civil has confirmed that 15 rapes have been registered in Ceuta since the mass invasion from Morocco at the end of July, deepening concerns over security in the enclave. Two suspects who entered during the influx have already been detained in connection with the cases, while at least one has now been ordered expelled to Morocco.