European democracy and rule of law are at risk, the general says, so Europe must give Ukraine whatever it can to pressure Moscow, even if Trump does not.
A weapons factory in Munich in 2022. With the exception of Germany, the main European countries have high debt and little space in their budgets for extra spending on Ukraine.
As shared by Christopher Dring via TheGameBusiness, the GSD’s European Game sales for the week ending Oct 12th have been released, revealing just how much better Battlefield 6 performed in the region compared to its own past titles as well as competitors.
In a pleasant surprise, Battlefield 6 took to the top spot on the week’s sales chart, beating out EA’s own Sports FC26. Even more impressive however is the fact that Battlefield 6 reportedly sold 4 times as many copies as Battlefield 5 had in the same timeframe.
Furthermore, not only did Battlefield 6 surpass itself, but the game’s launch in Europe even managed to beat out last year’s Call of Duty Black Ops 6 – a massive achievement given how many units COD sells, especially at launch.
Of course, for a live-service multiplayer title, Battlefield 6 will need to maintain its player base in the long run in order to remain successful. Given just how big of a launch it managed however, it is unlikely that you’ll have to wait for lobbies to fill up any time soon.
KitGuru says: Are you one of the 7 million players? What platform did you purchase it on? Will BF6 outsell Black Ops 7? Let us know your thoughts down below.
Le vice-président de la Commission européenne Stéphane Séjourné, en charge des dossiers industriels, organise une réunion d'urgence lundi 20 octobre avec les filières touchées par les restrictions de la Chine sur les exportations de terres rares, a indiqué une source au sein de son cabinet.
Le vice-président de la Commission européenne Stéphane Séjourné, en charge des dossiers industriels, organise une réunion d'urgence lundi 20 octobre avec les filières touchées par les restrictions de la Chine sur les exportations de terres rares, a indiqué une source au sein de son cabinet.
Justice minister says ‘we have failed’ after thieves take seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from museum
The French government is under increasing pressure over museum security as police continue to search for thieves who took seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum.
“What is certain is that we have failed, since people were able to park a furniture hoist in the middle of Paris, get people up it in several minutes to grab priceless jewels, and give France a terrible image,” the justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, told France Inter radio on Monday.
The likely new Czech government will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal and migration and asylum pact
If you open your window on a quiet street in central Prague, the first sound you hear is the trrrrk-trrrrk-trrrrk of carry-on suitcases trundling across paving stones, as tourists walk to their hotel or Airbnb. (The Czech capital had 8 million visitors last year.) As they trek around Prague Castle and fill the Old Town bars with cheerful chatter, these visitors – many of them probably unaware of the recent election victory of rightwing populist nationalist parties – may think this is just another normal European country. And you know what: they will be right.
Some more extensively informed newspaper commentators, reaching for an attention-grabbing generalisation, tell a different story. This is eastern Europe reverting to type, they say. After Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, now Czechia as well! The truth is more interesting – and more worrying.
Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist
Nine decades later, Álvarez’s love of the game has only increased. A little after 10am on Saturday, the 104-year-old madrileño – believed to be the oldest active registered chess player in the world – stepped off a bus in the south of the city and pushed his homemade walker towards the door of the cultural centre where he comes for his weekly matches.
French culture ministry says eight pieces were stolen – but crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugénie, was dropped by the fleeing thieves
The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, was closed suddenly on Sunday after a break-in at its Apollon gallery, the home of the French crown jewels – part of a daring daylight heist in which priceless Napoleonic jewels stolen.
As French police hunt the thieves who stole eight pieces of jewellery, questions are being asked about how they did it and who would be in the market for such items, including a necklace Napoleon gave to his wife.
Trump made the comments after a tense meeting with Zelenskyy in which the Ukraine leader failed to secure supplies of Tomahawk missiles
Donald Trump has suggested the best way to end the war in Ukraine would be to “cut up” the country’s Donbas region in a way that would leave most of it under Russian control, after reportedly pushing Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a White House meeting to give up swaths of territory.
“Let it be cut the way it is,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “It’s cut up right now,” he said, adding that you can “leave it the way it is right now”.
À six mois des élections législatives en Hongrie, le Premier ministre souverainiste Viktor Orban est devancé dans les sondages par son rival, Péter Magyar. À la tête du parti Tisza, centriste et pro-européen, ce quadragénaire très sportif fait actuellement le tour de la Hongrie en 80 jours pour rallier la population à son parti.
Veteran leftwinger Tufan Erhürman wins after campaign on reviving stalled talks to reunify island
Turkish Cypriots have handed the pro-European leftwing leader Tufan Erhürman a resounding victory in a presidential poll likely to inject renewed vigour into the deadlocked peace process on Cyprus.
Erhürman, 55, who campaigned on reviving stalled UN-brokered talks to reunify the island, defeated the incumbent nationalist, Ersin Tatar, by nearly 27 percentage points – a landslide win that surprised even his most ardent supporters.
Former French president set to start five-year sentence for scheme to obtain campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi’s regime
The former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will go to prison on Tuesday after a court sentenced him to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy, who was the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, will become the first former head of an EU country to serve time in prison, and the first French postwar leader to be jailed.
Ukraine’s president calls for meeting of European-led ‘coalition of the willing’ on his return from talks with Trump
Ukraine’s president has urged allies against appeasing Russia after returning from a trip to the US, where he failed to secure long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy had flown to Washington after weeks of calls for the weaponry, hoping to capitalise on Donald Trump’s growing frustration with Vladimir Putin after a summit in Alaska failed to produce a breakthrough in the war.
Security services are monitoring ‘active clubs’ as they move across borders to spread their extremist ideology
Neo-fascist fight clubs, which are a global locus of neo-nazism, have caught the eye of western intelligence agencies that consider them a burgeoning national security threat, according to experts and government documents reviewed by the Guardian.
“Active clubs”, pseudo mixed martial arts gangs preaching a strain of far-right activism inspired by the teachings of Adolf Hitler, are well known to be moving across borders. But the revelation that official security services are keeping watch over them, the same kind of agencies known to surveil proscribed terrorist organizations like the Islamic State, shows how active clubs are an evolving and quickly growing threat.
Necklace given by Napoleon to his wife among items taken from Paris museum in highly professional daylight raid
French police are hunting four thieves who carried out a highly professional daylight raid on the Louvre, breaking into one of the museum’s most ornate rooms and escaping with eight pieces of “priceless” historic jewellery, including a necklace given by Napoleon to his wife.
The world’s most-visited museum was suddenly closed for the day on Sunday after the break-in targeted pieces in two glass cases in its Apollon gallery, where the French crown jewels are held.
Field Marshal Lord Richards tells The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nato forces join fight
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