Europe

The Ingeborg Bachmann Dome, an installation dedicated to the Austrian writer and poet, has been inaugurated in Nova Gorica as part of the first cross-border European Capital of Culture program until the end of autumn

Illegally-built Roma homes in Sofia have been flattened despite European Court of Human Rights ruled demolition shouldn't proceed until a legal challenge is resolved; The 2016 decision to demolish follows Spatial Planning Act and locals were notified

Monaco has joined the @ON network, a European anti-mafia initiative spearheaded by Europol and Eurojust, enhancing capacity to coordinate cross-border investigations and collaborate more effectively in the fight against transnational criminal networks

Police is seek power to force social media giants, especially TikTok, to remove assignments about gang murders; police chief Petra Lundh thinks the ads on the digital platforms are a sign of an insufficient response to the problem

Large onshore windfarms, for long virtually impossibile to build, are now treated as other forms of infrastructure; should onshore wind projects be identified as nationally significant, local councils or communities would no longer be consulted

The exhibition "Children of War, People of Peace" opened at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, presenting a series of paired images of children pictured in wartime Sarajevo and again today, decades later, photographed by Milomir Kovacevic Strasni

The Church of Norway is attracting record numbers of new members after years of decline; they are mostly young adults who’ve had their first child and researchers think they’re attracted more by the emphasis on fellowship, than just worship

Around 50 caravans belonging to members of a travelling community attempting to enter canton Valais in southern Switzerland, from France, without prior warning were blocked by police on the motorway to prevent their unauthorised entry

The 80th anniversary of the breakout of prisoners from the World War II Jasenovac concentration camp was commemorated with a solemn celebration entitled 80 Years, 80 Destinies, attended by Croatian leaders, minorities, anti-fascists, surviving prisoners

The use of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, not yet regulated in Montenegro, allows officials – including the prime minister – to withhold the value of their digital assets from anti-corruption bodies in their mandatory asset declarations

Six departments in France, including Lyon and Cannes, are on red alert as "exceptional rain" causes severe flooding with up to 630 mm of rain in just 48 hours, vehicles have been submerged and swept away, prompting evacuations and road closures

A huge snowfall whitened the Alps, by far the biggest of the 24-25 season, with the avalanche danger at a rare maximum 5 out 5 in area of the Western Alps; the snowfall is a good news for glaciers and snowpack before the arrival of summer