
In five weeks, a revolt that began with teenagers dragging rubbish bins across school gates in a Paris suburb has become a continental movement. Pupils are blockading lycées in France, pitching tents in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and Athens’ Syntagma Square, throwing bricks at a ministry in Tirana and occupying schools in Turin. The…

On 31 August 2026, officials from Israel and Greece signed an air-defence agreement in Israel that Israel’s ministry called the largest defence export deal in the history of the two countries’ relations. Israel’s Ministry of Defence director general, Amir Baram, and his Greek counterpart, Ioannis Bouras, put their names to a government-to-government contract worth…