🇬🇷 Greece plans to introduce a ban on social media use for people under 15, the country's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced.

🇺🇦 🇭🇺 🇸🇰 Ukraine will resume the transit of oil via the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia.

🇮🇸 📊 58% of Icelanders declare in a poll that they will vote in favor of resuming European Union accession negotiations in the referendum scheduled for August 29, with 30% against.
In a hypothetical membership referendum itself, 52% are in favor of joining the EU and 48% against, according to a Gallup poll.

🇨🇾🇹🇷 The authorities of Northern Cyprus believe that the Republic of Cyprus is using tensions in the region to expand military cooperation with foreign powers in order to increase pressure on Turkish Cypriots.

🇫🇮 🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The President of Finland says that Europe will soon have to resume dialogue with Russia.

🇸🇰 🤝 🇷🇺 Slovak Prime Minister Fico has announced that he will take part in the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9th.

🇫🇷 France once again opposes Donald Trump and refuses to send its navy to the Strait of Hormuz.

✍️ 🇻🇦 At the beginning of the week, Pope Leo XIV moved back into the Apostolic Palace. Previously, his predecessor Pope Francis did not live there, choosing instead the Domus Sanctae Marthae and a life of simplicity and poverty.

Despite this gesture, so far Pope Leo's pontificate is shaping up to be completely devoid of substance, and I think it will bring absolutely nothing new or valuable to the life of the Church.

It was the same with Francis's pontificate. He tried to be media-friendly. For the first six months after his election as pope, the media showed how cool he was, but then he got boring, he died, and no one can point to any meaningful achievement of Pope Francis. Leo will be the same.

📰 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Politico, citing as always anonymous European officials, predicts a sharp crisis in diplomatic relations between the EU and the US in connection with Europe's refusal to support an attack on Iran and to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 We have to look into how the money we sent to Ukraine as aid was spent

- Donald Trump

🇭🇺🇺🇦 Viktor Orbán says Ukraine will not receive EU funds unless Druzhba oil flows to Hungary are restored, rejecting Brussels latest proposals and holding firm on Budapest’s position.

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✍️ 🇭🇺 There's no point in sending hearts and getting excited about Hungary's stance on the loan for Ukraine and the Druzhba pipeline. Orban is in the final weeks of his election campaign. You'll see that after the elections, if Orban wins, it will suddenly turn out that a compromise can be reached, and that actually, Hungary's place has always been in Europe, and other such slogans that this government uses.

🇫🇮 Finland rules out sending its mine clearance vessels to the Strait of Hormuz, citing that they are designed specifically for Baltic Sea conditions.

🇨🇳🇷🇺 Reuters reports that Chinese energy giants Sinopec and PetroChina have contacted suppliers about possible purchases of Russian oil.

🇬🇪 ☦️ Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II died in a hospital at the age of 93, Mtavari-Arxi TV reported.

Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal See Bishop Shio officially confirmed the death of the patriarch.

"This is a loss for the entire Orthodox world."

- the bishop stressed.

🇷🇺 🤝 🇮🇷 Russia has expanded its intelligence cooperation with Iran by providing it with satellite imagery and drones to attack American targets in the region

- WSJ

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 "I think you could say that the conflict in Ukraine was not a threat to the USA" - Donald Trump

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 "Without America's help, Ukraine would have fallen in one day"

- Donald Trump

🇪🇺 🇺🇦 ❗️The EU countries have agreed on a 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, overcoming Hungary's veto.

🇵🇱 🇺🇦 The current mood of Poles towards Ukrainians is quite well illustrated by the fact that a fundraiser for power generators for Ukrainian cities, organized by the Ukrainian consulate in Rzeszow, Poland, collected only 36,129 PLN (about 8,480 Euro) over a month and a half.

🇫🇷 France's supreme audit institution (Cour des Comptes) says renewables energies cost 26,3 billions euros between 2016 to 2024 while worrying about the limited impacts of such policies.