'Truly staggering': World breaks hottest day record for second day in a row

Doctors strike in Portugal for better working conditions and pay

Doctors in Portugal are among the lowest paid in the European Union and their working conditions have deteriorated over the last two decades.

EU Punishes Hungary: High-Level Summit Cancelled Over Orban's Controversial Ukraine 'Peace Mission'

A high-level EU foreign affairs summit scheduled for August will be moved from Hungary to Brussels, the bloc’ top diplomat, Josep Borrell, confirmed on Monday. Speaking at a press conference in the Belgian capital, Borrell said the bloc must “send a signal, even if it is a symbolic signal,” to punish Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his Ukraine “peace mission,” which EU officials have condemned as contrary to the bloc’s policies. #EUPunishesHungary #OrbanUkraineMission #EUvsHungary #DiplomaticTensions #HighLevelSummit #BudapestSummitCancelled #UkraineCrisis #SymbolicSignal #EUDiplomacy #OrbanControversy #HungaryEUConflict #EUForeignPolicy #PoliticalFallout #EUUnity #UkraineConflict ~PR.152~ED.155~HT.334~

Far-right Patriots stripped of key remaining parliamentary posts

Orbán’s Patriots for Europe wished "bad karma" on pro-EU parties that maintained a cordon sanitaire on the far-right group, preventing their lawmakers from securing the last top jobs available in the European Parliament.

Member states 'boycott' informal meeting of EU justice ministers held in Budapest

Instead of attending themselves, most member states justice ministers sent their deputies or leading civil servants to the two-day meeting.