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Meetings with Indian President Narendra Modi focused primarily on expanding oil exports from Venezuela to India — with the backing of the United States.

In mid-June, the office of the Hungarian Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC)—an organization with close ties to Orbán—had its registration revoked by the EU Transparency Register. As a result, the MCC is no longer able to participate in parliamentary proceedings.

With the inauguration of the new Attorney General, Gabriel Estuardo García Luna, in May, there is now growing hope for change in the judicial system.

Protests began in May with a workers’ strike in Bolivia and demands primarily related to the economy. But today, what is heard in the streets is the demand for the resignation of right-wing President Rodrigo Paz.

In Poland, a legal battle concluded successfully in late April, forcing the Polish authorities to recognize same-sex marriages that took place abroad. The court ordered the city of Lublin to recognize a marriage entered into by a Polish couple in Portugal.

As a result of the European Citizens' Initiative Against Conversion Therapy (ACT), the European Commission is being called upon to strengthen its measures to ban so-called conversion therapies.

The Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) has initiated proceedings that could lead to the banning of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party. The allegation: The ESN violates the EU’s fundamental values.

In May and June 2026, committees and parliamentary groups of the German Bundestag apparently enjoy traveling; at any rate, we have already counted 22 trips abroad as of early June.

In return for their numerous trips abroad, the AfD is also extending invitations to the Bundestag to guests from India, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Switzerland.

Nine provinces and four other municipalities in Ecuador are under a new nighttime curfew from may 3 and for fifteen days, during which security forces will seek to intensify the fight against organized crime.

IACHR's annual report highlights the critical situation facing Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants amid violence, persecution, and dispossession in Nicaragua.

The Good Lobby project operates an online tracker that lists all collaborations between the European People’s Party (EPP) and the far right.

An article in Der Spiegel in April highlighted the AfD’s activities in connection with the European Sovereignty Foundation. The European Parliament has allocated 1.1 million euros for this purpose in its budget for the current year.

In France's two-round municipal elections, the far right performed well, though not spectacularly.

The Lega, the party of Italian Minister Matteo Salvini, is facing meltdown after a split. In early February, popular MEP Roberto Vannacci announced his resignation and founded the National Future party.

Shortly before this newsletter was published, the presidential elections in Portugal were decided by a runoff vote. The candidate from the center-left camp, Social Democrat António José Seguro from the Partido Socialista, was elected as the new president with …