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The EU plans a comprehensive sanctions package against around 1,600 individuals and organizations that support Russian war efforts, as well as criminal measures against 77 actors involved in the illegal Duma elections in occupied Ukrainian areas, during a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg. #RusslandSanktionen #EUAußenminister #LibanonStabilität (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

Actu Foot reported, citing L’Équipe, that Ousmane Dembélé was surprised to experience physical fatigue after the 60th minute of high-stakes matches in the Champions League last season. According to the media, the coaching staff wanted him to arrive with plenty of freshness in order to be able to make a strong effort for 60 to 70 minutes. https://t.co/vgik1KjhqC #ChampionsLeague #Dembélé #Football (translated)

As of 4 PM on the referendum, 603,057 voters have cast their ballots, with discussions ongoing about the controversial amendment to the parliamentary investigation, which proposes more power to the commissions and less protection for those under investigation. #referendum #parlamentarnaPreiskava #varstvoPreiskovancev (translated)

Univers Tennis reported that Alexander Zverev defeated Quentin Halys in three sets (6-4, 6-7, 6-3), for the fourth time this season. According to the account, this victory was Zverev's 60th in 2026 and allowed him to reach the round of 16 at the Shanghai Masters 1000. #Tennis #Masters1000 #Zverev (translated)

Vojtěch Gibiš wrote that Mr. Macinka clearly believed Trump's words about the approaching end of the war in Ukraine. According to Gibiš, Trump made similar statements approximately sixty times over seven months and started the war himself seven months ago. #Ukrajina #Trump #válka (translated)

Maddalena Loy had recalled a phrase attributed to Goebbels about the repetition of lies and had defined the accusation from the opposition that the Meloni government had cut funding for public health as false. Loy had contested the data from the Gimbe Foundation, led by Nino Cartabellotta, on the 18.8 billion euros of “invisible cuts.” According to her reconstruction, the figure did not indicate resources taken away from hospitals but the difference compared to what would have been allocated had the ratio between the national health fund and GDP of 2022 remained unchanged. She argued that Gimbe’s headline had led publications like Repubblica to present the figure as an actual loss and called that interpretation a political attack on the government. In comparing allocations, Loy pointed out an increase of 8.2 billion euros between 2011 and 2019, under the Monti, Letta, Renzi, Gentiloni, and Conte governments; of 11.6 billion euros between 2019 and 2022, during the Conte government; and of 17.5 billion euros between 2022 and 2026, with the Meloni government, which would raise the fund from 125.4 to 142.9 billion euros. She described the latter as the largest accounting increase in peacetime. Loy also mentioned monthly increases of around 400 euros for doctors, peaking at 600 euros, a plan to hire 1,000 doctors and 6,300 nurses, coverage of over 2,000 new services, and a flat tax of 15% on overtime for doctors and nurses. She finally contested the statements of Senator Castellone on L’Aria che tira regarding cuts to healthcare. #SanitàPubblica #GovernoMeloni #FakeNews (translated)

Daniel Johann wrote to Regendelfin that Ukraine would receive more than 100 billion from Germany within three years, while 600,000 people would be supported through citizen's income in Germany. At the same time, a dictator is in power there, although the country is supposedly fighting for freedom, he wrote. #Ukraine #Deutschland #Freiheit (translated)

Marek Magierowski wrote that the tweet was deleted, and such a banner did not appear on the screen. He stated that in the meantime the post received 44 thousand views, 3 thousand likes, and 602 retweets. He added that the audience was excited, and editor Bartosz Wieliński was surely delighted, and that he himself had to defend Republic TV. https://t.co/GCaaTdd2jL https://t.co/42lAUl4SdW #media #twitter #publicystyka (translated)

The union warns that the Croatian police face a serious staffing crisis due to the departure of police officers from service, low salaries, overload, and poor working conditions, while it is estimated that between 600 and 800 officers leave annually. #policija #odlazak #plaće (translated)

Mirjam152 challenged the reasoning that a lower VAT rate cost the government a lot of money. She compared it to the income a landlord misses out on by asking for a lower rent and sarcastically suggested that the VAT should then be raised to 30 percent and inheritance and gift taxes to 100 percent. According to her, people were already paying more than enough tax. The researchers defended a higher VAT rate for, among others, hairdressers, bicycle mechanics, and plasterers with the argument that a tight labor market could make services more expensive due to insufficient staff availability. Mirjam152 called that reasoning flawed and accused the researchers of having a political agenda and pandering to the government and the cabinet. #BTW #Belastingen #Overheid (translated)

Vláďa Foltán ironically wrote that Donald no longer pretended anything, in his opinion. He stated that Putin must have desperately longed for an agreement with Ukraine, while Zelensky was supposed to reject any agreements; he called Zelensky treacherous. He added that according to Donald, Russia was helping the world with diesel supplies. https://t.co/60lO5qUv8I #politika #Rusko #Ukrajina (translated)

Poland, to compensate for the absence of nuclear weapons, plans to significantly increase the number of its tanks, soon reaching over 1,600 units by 2032, thus surpassing the total number of combined tanks of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy, in order to deter any attempt of a Russian invasion. (translated)