In Short

ParisSenior officers from all the armies of the Atlantic Alliance met in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in the Cercle National des Armées for a seminar on defence on 1 July.

Waren/MüritzThe district court in Waren has now given a suspended sentence to a young Afghan for raping an eleven-year-old girl. The crime took place in January.

Saint-ÉtienneVictor Lafay (26) dropped out on the 13th stage of the Tour de France, after the Frenchman from Cofidis, who has been tipped as a possible candidate for a win, said that by the sixth stage victory was no longer possible. There are 21 stages in the cycling competition.

BerlinThe most unscrupulous political accomplice of the vaccine lobby, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, is sticking to the recommendation of a fourth jab (although all experts advise against it and it no longer has any effect at all, except a harmful one).

ParisIn France, the current distribution of political power is having an effect. The Macron government has suffered a resounding defeat with its first legislative proposal – which is all the more important because it is the main agenda of Western elites, namely vaccination. There will now be no QR vaccination controls at the entry and exit from France.

SkellefteåA 9-year-old Swedish girl was raped and left for dead on a playground by an Ethiopian migrant, who had just obtained a permanent residence permit. The little girl is still in a coma.

BudapestThe EU keeps trying to challenge the democratic legitimacy of the Hungarian government. But there is little reason for that: not only was the Orban government in Budapest able to clinch a convincing victory in the most recent parliamentary elections, but the Hungarian population is also happier with their conservative government than voters in other EU countries.

ParisFormer Polish electrician, trade union leader and ex-president Lech Walesa has an idiosyncratic idea of ​​peace – he would like to permanently damage Russia to keep it small. The 78-year-old announced this in an interview with the French broadcaster LCI.

KievNew NATO hopeful Ukraine, may be legalising same-sex marriage after enough signatures were gained for the president to consider the proposal. Kiev's Pride parade in 2019 incidentally was the largest event of the kind that the country had seen. 

The HagueBehind the scenes, preparations are being made to set up a new round of shots against a virus that was designed for this purpose in a laboratory. Dutch Health minister Ernst Kuipers is calling on people to get yet another jab.