Europe

Magda Butrym is back in the news after becoming the first Polish designer to join retail giant H&M: in Warsaw crowds formed outside the downtown H&M flagship store as local fashionistas queued to be among the first to grab one of the coveted new pieces

A total of 3.427 people have received royal honours in this year’s lintjesregen, birthday of king Willem-Alexander; the royal family celebrated King’s Day in Doetinchem on Saturday, a day earlier than normal, among thousands of well-wishers

A former Polish deputy justice minister wanted on corruption charges for over 25 million euros, having fled Poland, was granted asylum in Hungary and has now been appointed head of a new Polish-Hungarian conservative think tank close to leader Orbán

One of the oldest known photographs from Iceland—a rare 19th-century image of Reykjavík harbor—has been lost while in the care of the Stockholms Auktionsverk auction house, shortly after being sold to the highest bidder

Photos showing the Presidents of Ukraine and the United States seated face-to-face in St. Peter's Basilica, deep in conversation, have gone around the world; a spokesperson for the White House called the discussion "very productive"

Last week to visit Gènesi at Bici Lab Andorra, open until 4 May; the exhibition presents collecting as first step in the creation of a museum and pays tribute to the Riberaygua family, who ceded their bicycle collection to the center in Andorra La Vella

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

Artist Viola Conti is participating in the international art exhibition “Splendors of the Sun and Moon” at the Pingshan Cultural Settlement Exhibition Centre in Shenzhen, where the Sammarinese artist is exhibiting three video works

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