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LisbonThe outgoing Portuguese president was re-elected in the first round, but André Ventura, of the Chega party, gained more than ten points compared to the legislative elections of 2019.

MoscowOn its site, the American diplomacy indicated the times and places of demonstrations which took place in several cities in support of the imprisoned opponent of Vladimir Putin.

The HagueSome 240 people were arrested, mostly in Amsterdam, after riots broke out in at least 10 cities across the Netherlands on Sunday evening. On Saturday night was the first curfew in the Netherlands since the end of World War II, and police arrested scores of young foreign men and handed out 3 600 fines for curfew violations. 

Parler, a social network and app popular with Trump supporters, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company.

CopenhagenMette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark and Leader of the Social Democrats wants to stop asylum requests in her country, which has already dropped to more than ten times fewer than in 2015.

BrusselsCountries in the EU are theoretically bound to the neutrality obligation in its use of tax revenues: The taxpayer's money must not be used for political purposes. But just as the German government wants to spend 1 billion euros in the next four years on the so-called “fight against the right”, the EU is funding a network of “civil society” NGOs that represent clearly left-wing politics, actively combatting conservative politicians and their parties – Matteo Salvini and Viktor Orban are but two examples.

An academic study carried out by researchers in the US and Germany has concluded that tech elites are completely isolated from ordinary people. “We find that the 100 richest members of the tech world reveal distinctive attitudes that set them apart both from the general population and from other wealthy elites,” the study noted.

BrusselsThe EU Commission and the European Central Bank have announced that they will work together on the technical implementation of the digital euro. “We need a digital euro. This requires the digitization of the economy and finance, ”said the Vice President of the EU Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, on Wednesday in Brussels.

ZurichThe founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, has complained about a "conspiracy theory" surrounding his book "Covid-19: The Great Reset".

WashingtonUS President Joe Biden on Wednesday promised to "defeat" "white supremacism" and "domestic terrorism" two weeks after the breach on Capitol Hill in which BLM activists were seen inciting violence.