🇫🇷 - By summer 2026, France to adopt the EU law that ensures transparency of employees' salaries, so all colleagues will know one another's salaries.

🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🇭🇷 Brussels and Zagreb want to push Hungary into a vulnerable position by forcing it to give up Russian oil from the "Druzhba" pipeline and switch to purchasing oil from the Croatian JANAF pipeline, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.

🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukraine nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Vucic said he believes Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats are real, calling those who consider the Russian leader to be bluffing “abnormal.”

Gold reaches $3,900. Bittersweet to say the least.

🇷🇴 🇰🇷 Romanian Parliament receives from the MoD the request to buy 216 K2 Panther tanks for the military. They will be produced in Romania.

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 🇳🇴 Former NATO chief Stoltenberg said that in talks with Zelensky, he attempted to persuade the Ukrainian leader to accept a “Finland-style” Winter war type peace deal, which Zelensky flatly rejected

🇷🇺 - Telegram owner Durov claims that, in 2018, he was subjected to an assassination attempt by poisoning.

They injected him with gluten.

The European Union is aiming to lift roaming conditions in the Balkans if it is allowed to house the user data itself. Ukraine and Moldova have been fast tracked entry on January 1, 2026 to the "Roam Like at Home" program.

"The Growth Plan for the Western Balkans, adopted in 2023 aims at integrating the Western Balkan partners into the EU’s single market, including the digital single market."

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-002926-ASW_EN.html

Many Balkan Telecom networks are notoriously corrupt. Caveat, they are functional and affordable.