The seventieth Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna under one of the largest security operations modern Austria has mounted: a robot dog, an FBI cyber task force on call from New York, and a 1.5-kilometre no-fly ring drawn around three points in the city. We report from inside the perimeter.

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When a German neo-Nazi changed his legal gender to dodge prison, he handed the European far right a weapon no amount of speechmaking could have produced. His arrest at a Czech border village last week has placed the consequences before a judge in Plzeň — and an entire trans community before a gathering backlash.

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On 12 April, Hungarians go to the polls in what Politico has called the EU’s most consequential election of 2026: a vote that will determine whether Viktor Orbán’s sixteen-year experiment in dismantling democracy, capturing the media and criminalising queer visibility inside a European Union member state can be reversed by a ballot.

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