Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dissolved parliament on Monday after opposition parties blocked his housing reform decrees, triggering Spain’s third general election in three years.
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Vučić Calls October 25 Snap Election as Two Years of Protest Force Early Vote
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić dissolved parliament and set an October 25 snap election, moving the vote up by over a year as student-led anti-corruption protests enter their second year.
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Sweden Votes in Knife-Edge Election That Puts Far Right on the Brink of Power
Sweden’s September 13 general election is too close to call, with the centre-left and centre-right blocs separated by less than a point as polls open across the country.
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Europe’s Fourth Heatwave Puts All 27 Italian Cities on Maximum Alert
Italy placed all 27 monitored cities on maximum heat alert simultaneously for the first time on Thursday, as temperatures passed 40°C from Austria to Spain.
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Ceuta Overwhelmed as Tens of Thousands Cross from Morocco in a Single Day
Spain deployed troops and shut schools in its North African enclave after at least 57 people died during an overnight mass crossing from Morocco into the EU territory of Ceuta.
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France’s Gironde Wildfire Burns 42,000 Hectares in Worst Outbreak Since 1945
Southwest France’s Gironde wildfire burned over 42,000 hectares by July 27, displacing 250,000 people in the worst French blaze since the Second World War.
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Vucic to resign within weeks after 18 months of Serbian protests
Serbia’s Vucic says he will resign within weeks and call early elections, bowing to 18 months of student-led protests over the Novi Sad station disaster.
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Hegseth declares NATO’s era of freeriding over in Brussels troop review
Hegseth ordered a six-month review of US troops in Europe on June 18, saying allies who denied base access during Iran operations had been ‘shameful.’
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Swiss voters decide on a population cap that would trigger an EU rupture
Switzerland voted on 14 June 2026 on a constitutional amendment to cap its population at 10 million — a measure that could end free movement with the EU.
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Peter Magyar ends Orbán’s sixteen-year grip on Hungary
With 53.6 percent of the vote and a two-thirds parliamentary majority, Tisza delivered the most consequential electoral result Hungary has seen since the fall of communism.