Closing summary
… and on that note, it’s a wrap from me, Jakub Krupa.
We continue our coverage of the developing situation in Sweden, where at least five people have been injured in an attack at an education campus, on our special live blog below.
Here are the three things to take away from today’s Europe Live blog:
Luxembourg’s foreign minister Xavier Bettel warned the EU against showing any weakness in trade talks with Donald Trump, warning: “If you are weak, he eats you. And if you don’t negotiate, he kills you.” Bettel, who worked with Trump during his first term as Luxembourg’s prime minister, insisted that Europe should be united and ready to retaliate, while reminding the US administration that “America first does not mean America alone” (9:58).
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said Trump’s return to global politics means Europeans can “say goodbye to world trade rules as we know them,” as he suggested he could play a role in negotiating with the US president given their close personal relations in the past (10:18).
France’s far-right National Rally party does not intend to back a no-confidence motion in François Bayrou’s government over a budget bill he is seeking to pass without a vote, its president, effectively confirming that the country’s prime minister François Bayrou will stay in post, as the opposition’s plans for a confidence vote do not have enough votes to pass (9:36).
And that’s all from me, Jakub Krupa, for today.
See you again tomorrow.
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What's next for student protests in Serbia? – analysis
Over the last two weeks, we have been closely covering student protests in Serbia.
The students’ strategy is to focus on the Novi Sad station disaster with specific demands for transparency and accountability, and their hope is their dogged insistence on those two scarce commodities will somehow change Serbia.
Over the weekends, tens of thousands took to the streets again.
But with student-led activists reluctant to engage politically against well-entrenched regime, many are asking: now what?
Julian Borger was in Novi Sad over the weekend and here is his report.
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