🇪🇺❌🇷🇸🇷🇸 EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos cancelled a planned visit to Serbia on September 4, saying the public “glorification” of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic was incompatible with the values underpinning the country's path towards European Union membership.

Kos had been due in Belgrade on September 10 for talks with government officials, opposition representatives and civil society groups. The EU delegation in Serbia notified participants that the visit had been postponed but initially gave no reason.

Kos later said she had decided not to make the trip because of the reaction to Mladic's death and burial, warning that the episode cast doubt on Serbia's commitment to European values.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/eu-commissioner-cancels-serbia-visit-over-mladic-funeral-controversy-465812/

🇩🇪🗳 The AfD is about to win a German state election for the first time.

Saxony-Anhalt votes tomorrow with the far-right party polling at 41–43% — nearly double the CDU's 22–23%.

That's a 20-point swing since 2021.

Every other party refuses to govern with them, so even if they win, forming a government could be deadlocked for months.

If enough small parties miss the 5% threshold, the AfD could reach an absolute majority.

The election is the first of three German state votes this month and is being watched as a signal of where the country is heading before the 2029 federal election.

🔗 Clash Report

🇩🇪 German police in Saxony-Anhalt are preparing for mass civil disobedience following Sunday's state elections!

According to internal documents circulating within the state police force, there is a belief far-left activists will attempt to occupy state buildings and the offices of the CDU and AfD should the two parties try to collaborate and exclude leftist parties from the local government.

The alliance called Widersetzen ("Resist") already made a name for itself last July when it led a massive protest against the AfD's Congress in Erfurt, Thuringia, trying to disrupt the party's elections. Several rightwing journalists were assaulted by leftwing protesters during the event.

Widersetzen's spokesman, Noa Sander threatened back then the CDU and BSW with violence if they will ally with the AfD following the elections in September.

The German police are preparing for massive protests in the event of a landslide victory by the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt with potential violent clashes between far-left extremists and AfD supporters.

Already at the end of June, an anonymous letter had been published on the platform Indymedia, which was mainly used by left-wing radicals, in which the storming of the Magdeburg state parliament was announced in the event of an AfD victory. “On 6. September, the day of the expected fascist seizure of power in Germany, we will storm the Magdeburg state parliament with a large group of Antifas from all over Germany," it said.

The left-autonomous scene is also mobilizing for the days after the election. On the platform Kontrapolis became an “Action Week against the German State” from 7 to 13. September called. State institutions are explicitly mentioned as possible goals. Deutsche Bahn has already warned internally of possible attacks on its infrastructure.

🔗 https://apollo-news.net/polizei-rechnet-nach-sachsen-anhalt-wahl-mit-besetzungen-politischer-einrichtungen/

🇮🇱💧 Five of Israel's six desalination plants shut down after a massive algae bloom clogged intake pipes, cutting a major share of the country's water supply.

The bloom originated off Egypt's Nile Delta but experts say untreated sewage from Gaza — roughly 40,000 cubic meters discharged daily after wartime destruction of treatment plants — is feeding the algal growth.

Haaretz called it "sewage backfire," arguing Israel is paying the price for destroying Gaza's sanitation system.

Israel had to emergency-pump from the Sea of Galilee and aquifers, and halted pipeline water to Gaza during the outage.

🔗 Al Jazeera

✡️🤝🇦🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪🇻🇪 American-born former Israeli ambassador to the U.S, Michael Oren: South America is Changing: Why That’s Good News for Israel and the Jews

Oren praises the "renewed interest" of the White House in South American politics celebrating the rightwing shift in Latin America turning the continent into a safe haven for Jewry

Oren concludes that Brazilian president, Lula da Silva, losing the upcoming Brazilian presidential elections this October, would turn South America "the most Israel-friendly continent on earth".

The former ambassador urges Israeli leaders to invest more in South America weary of the pendulum swinging back and bringing back in power pro-Palestine leftists like Nicolás Maduro and Gustavo Petro.

Another cause to the pro-Israel shift in South American politics which Oren cites is the growing Evangelical population in Latin America. Hispanics increasingly abandon Catholicism in favor of U.S-based Neo-Protestant cults. A core tenet of Evangelical Christianity is the belief that the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948 is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies in the Book of Deuteronomy which cite "the Gathering of Israel" as a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

🔗 https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/p/south-america-is-changing-why-thats

🗳 🇦🇹 📊 Austria, Market-Lazersfeld poll:

FPÖ-PfE: 39% (+1)
ÖVP-EPP: 21% (-1)
SPÖ-S&D: 15%
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 12% (+1)
NEOS-RE: 7%
KPÖ-LEFT: 4% (+1)

+/- vs. 06-07 July 2026

Fieldwork: 31 August - 01 September 2026
Sample size: 2,000

➤ europeelects.eu/austria

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