Hungary’s state development bank withdrew more than €170 million in EU funding from a company controlled by Lőrinc Mészáros, a businessman close to Viktor Orbán, just four days after approving it, citing transparency rules. OPUS TITÁSZ is challenging the reversal, while PM Péter Magyar, who has already named Mészáros as a likely target of his cabinet’s anti-corruption push, welcomed the move.

The 230 migrants packed onto a record-breaking mega-dinghy show how radically Channel migration has changed: fewer boats are getting through, but each carries far more people and launch areas now stretch into Belgium. Behind the crossings is an increasingly professional industry, largely run by Iraqi–Kurdish networks, moving Chinese-made equipment through Türkiye and Germany to northern France.

A 26-year-old Algerian illegal immigrant jailed over a brutal street beating in Valencia has now been accused of raping a homeless woman on the two preceding days, making it a violent rampage lasting three days. Spanish media report that he had been detained 18 times since entering Spain illegally in 2020 and was subject to a final deportation order that was never enforced.

Hungary’s parliament elected András Baka president on Tuesday, with the former Supreme Court chief receiving 140 votes in favour and six against in a secret ballot. A total of 146 MPs took part, with no invalid ballots and no abstentions, while the governing Tisza Party’s 141-seat parliamentary supermajority provided the overwhelming support for the new head of state.

Rabat’s demand that Spain return all Moroccan unaccompanied minors, including those who entered Ceuta during the recent mass invasion, has exposed a major weakness in Spain’s migration system. Once placed in child protection, minors can obtain residence, move to the mainland and eventually secure permanent status, creating incentives that have already been deliberately exploited.

New reporting has raised the possibility that Viktor Orbán could seek a senior international role after leaving office, from FIFA to the United Nations. The former prime minister reportedly discussed opportunities during his US trip and is interested in becoming UN deputy secretary-general, as a constitutional term limit and Tisza’s anti-corruption drive narrow his path back to power.

Viktor Orbán’s recent vacations abroad have fuelled criticism that he is disappearing at moments of domestic crisis. Those same trips, however, overlap strikingly with progress in MOL’s bid for Serbia’s NIS: undisclosed talks in Washington, an OFAC extension days later and a Serbian visit alongside MOL deputy CEO Oszkár Világi, pointing to possible influence beyond formal office.

Italian intelligence has warned that another mass illegal invasion from Morocco into Ceuta could begin within days, possibly as early as 10 August, as security services track renewed online mobilization resembling the campaign behind the 30 July wave. Spain is reinforcing the enclave as thousands from the first storm remain, leaving reception facilities overwhelmed and public order strained.

Hungary’s new foreign-policy establishment is preparing a ‘complete break’ with the MAGA-oriented model, according to the recently appointed leadership of the country’s main foreign-policy institute. Balázs Orbán, former political director of Viktor Orbán, said the shift meant abandoning a ‘sovereign, realist and conservative’ approach for a EU-centred liberal foreign policy.

Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham was knocked to the floor by Chicago Sky’s DiJonai Carrington on Saturday, escalating a dispute that had so far remained verbal and online. The row was sparked by Cunningham’s criticism of transgender participation in women’s sports and was even joined by former NBA players who ridiculed the debate by announcing plans to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft as women.