Keir Starmer has launched a new defence pact with Poland to protect Europe from the threat of Russia. Earlier today, he made his first trip to Ukraine since becoming PM, meeting President Zelensky in Kyiv while a Russian drone was shot down nearby and sirens wailed.

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A ten-strong team of curators has been announced to lead the next edition of the OFF-Biennale in Budapest. The event was initiated as a grassroots ‘garage biennale’ in 2014, countering what it terms the country’s existing ‘centralized, party-loyal art infrastructure with dubious professional standards.’

While the European Union struggles to compete with the United States and Asian countries, its leadership is seeking more authority and power in its hands, Viktor Orban said

Elsewhere, Moscow-bound Slovak delegation refused permission to fly over Poland; former Czech PM Babis rules out future cooperation with any of the four current governing parties; and Polish PM promises to advance Ukraine’s EU accession bid.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is considered one of the closest associates of US President-elect Donald Trump, will not fly to his inauguration.

Budapest benefits from NATO and the EU while simultaneously undermining them. Both institutions must hold Budapest to account, or risk further democratic backsliding in Hungary and elsewhere.

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