Amid scrutiny of Serbia's ties to Russia, President Vucic appears to be doubling down on playing the China card. But could extensive financial links with a nation the EU is keen to keep at bay backfire in the future?

My piece: politico.eu/article/xi-jin…

Serbia to Xi Jinping: No one reveres you like we do.
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The time machine has reached Hungary's government paper Magyar Nemzet.

'In May, when the scent of flowers and grass fills the air in the Great Plain, I will pay a state visit to Hungary at the invitation of President Tamás Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán'.

“United by Music” sounds like the slogan a bored Brussels bureaucrat would invent for an event as campy as Eurovision 😂 #Eurovision2024

I've got to say - this front page of Politika is an absolute cracker. Made me positively nostalgic for the pre-1989 Eastern Europe....There aren't many people that Alexander Vucic is prepared to step back for on a front page. But a photo-shopped Xi Jinping is clearly one of them.

Portimão, a city deep inside the Algarve region, has been loyal to the left since the 1974 revolution that overthrew Portugal’s dictatorship.

Now, it's leading the country’s sudden swing to the far right.

We went to Portimão to find out why: trib.al/ucYbYnp

All the Berlin Wall needed to come down was some Brussels drivers.

Tbilisi tonight

“I tell them, don’t do it, don’t be a writer. It’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things… then go ahead and do it.” We’ve lost one of the greats in Paul Auster!

At 3 am protesters are still on Rustaveli avenue. The youths on barricades are chanting Sa-kart-ve- lo! (Georgia in the Georgian language)
Video: Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge