NATO members should not be deterred from giving more military aid to Ukraine by Putin's "reckless Russian nuclear rhetoric", outgoing NATO boss Stoltenberg told @andrewramsaygray.bsky.social in an interview today.

Putin's nuclear talk shouldn't stop NATO backing Ukraine, Stoltenberg says

NATO members should not be deterred from giving more military aid to Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's "reckless Russian nuclear rhetoric", outgoing NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

Follow our live blog for the latest on today's election in Austria @deborahcole.bsky.social

Austria election live: polling on a knife-edge, with far-right Freedom party just ahead of incumbent leader

Far-right FPÖ could become strongest force in the country for first time in postwar period

Check out our live blog for the latest on the Brandenburg election:

Germany: Brandenburg goes to the polls with far-right AfD hoping for second state win – Europe live

Following AfD’s victory in Thuringia, race in one of smallest German states in terms of population becomes focus of attention

Testimony gathered by the Guardian indicates that the EU is funding security forces committing widespread sexual violence against vulnerable women.

The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in...

David Pressman, the US ambassador in Budapest, said there must be “a reckoning for Hungary’s allies and partners." “We too have to recognise that what we used to dismiss with an eyeroll requires us to look at it directly, and respond to it unflinchingly.”

Interesting nugget in EU Commission boss von der Leyen's "mission letter" to incoming foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas: It includes a remit to"strengthen our foreign and security cooperation with the United Kingdom".

Meanwhile, Hungary’s foreign minister is in Russia (again)

"Would you ever blame Hungarians for the Soviet invasion of 1956? Would you ever blame Czechs for the Soviet repression of 1968?" -- Ursula von der Leyen today

As leaders across Europe fume over Viktor Orbán’s unsanctioned foreign policy adventures, the Hungarian leader has intensified his campaign against independent voices at home. My story from Budapest:

‘Somewhere between Orwell and Kafka’: Hungary closes in on its media

The country’s new sovereignty protection office was set up to quieten anti-government voices, critics say

A scandal rocking Hungarian politics is exposing Viktor Orbán’s vulnerabilities and testing his opposition as the country prepares for local and European elections in June.

Crisis in Hungarian politics is exposing Orbán’s vulnerabilities. Will it sway undecided voters?

President’s resignation shines light on gap between government’s behaviour and rhetoric as country prepares for local and European elections