Elsewhere, Poland leads charge against the EU Commission’s new migrant distribution plan; Czech president stalls on nominating Babis as next PM; and Slovak interior minister faces enforcement proceedings over 120,000-euro fine.

Envisaged as a platform that empowers creators to connect directly with subscribers, OnlyFans is seeing a growing number of third-party agencies managing models’ accounts – some of which face allegations of exploitation and human rights abuses.

Thousands of Poles have a grandfather who was forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht. Polish politicians are still not ready to properly examine the vexed historical issue, while President Nawrocki seems more intent on arguing with Berlin over reparations.

Pristina and Belgrade distrust the diocese in Kosovo. One sees it as an agent of Serbian nationalism; for the other, it is not nationalistic enough. The faithful in the Serb minority, however, prefer monks and priests to their politicians.

Hungarian-British novelist David Szalay’s Booker triumph comes just a month after another Hungarian writer, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, also a previous Booker winner, received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Three years after an unprecedented refugee response, hate crimes against Ukrainians in Poland have doubled, while political rhetoric and coordinated disinformation is transforming the public discourse.

Home to cycling sensation Tadej Pogacar and other elite athletes, Slovenia lives and breathes sport - and its government invests in nurturing sporting talent.

A car accident, luxury homes and a powerful father: critics say Pavol Gaspar’s appointment as head of the Slovak intelligence agency raises big questions about trust and transparency.

France has joined the list of EU countries that consider sex without explicit consent to be rape.