Executive Summary
Italy froze automatic defence cooperation with Israel while Donald Trump publicly attacked Giorgia Meloni over Iran. Péter Magyar's election win ended Viktor Orbán's long rule but left major questions over energy, Ukraine and state institutions. The IMF cut growth forecasts and Amazon bought Globalstar as war and industrial competition reshaped markets. Colombia approved a hippo cull, while prosecutors in Rome and Potsdam pushed forward two distinct cross-border investigations.
Italy suspended the automatic renewal of its 2016 defence memorandum with Israel, turning what had been a routine five-year rollover into an explicit political review. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced the move in Verona, and Defence Minister Guido Crosetto formally notified Israel, with one…
Péter Magyar's Tisza party won a two-thirds parliamentary supermajority, ending Viktor Orbán's 16-year run in office and giving the new government the votes to rewrite major laws and reshape ministries (b812b977-d0e0-4f5d-b5dd-66cfb0f74dbd). Magyar used his first long press conference to promise a…
The IMF cut its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% from its January view, blaming the Middle East war, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and a historic oil shock (fc8864f6-48dc-48f8-b60e-1d79ea93eca2). It warned that a prolonged conflict could push growth down to 2.0%, a level associated with…
Colombia authorised the culling of up to 80 hippopotamuses descended from the four animals Pablo Escobar imported in the 1980s, arguing that years of sterilisation and relocation attempts had failed (f896c462-2930-4c91-9be1-f578460fcf84). Officials estimate the wild population at 170 to 200 and…