Bart De Wever

And the next step is for the council, so the member states, to put that on the agenda.

Belgium, who is led by my party leader, uh, my, my former party leader, Bart De Wever, and Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, are going to support the idea of pushing that through.

So we need the other member states to come, to come across and also say, "Look, the networks of the Muslim Brotherhood, who is even forbidden in countries like Egypt, need-

Where it started

So this is going to run and run, and gets to the fundamental questions about Europe, which we're gonna be covering in more detail today.

But just staying with Starlink before we go to the primary military update, LRT reports an attempt to set fire to a Lithuanian company storing Starlink communications equipment being thwarted around 2:00 AM on Sunday, with the Prime Minister stating that Russia was likely behind that failed sabotage.

It was prevented after authorities warned the company in advance and stepped up security.

So lots going on in that field at the moment, but Dom, where do you want to pick up with the military updates?

It's one thing to have a, a disinterested and disengaged United States, but to now have a, have one that's actively supporting Russia is very, very serious.

It is extraordinary.

And when it comes to a former British prime minister, so Boris Johnson writing in a Sunday newspaper yesterday, when a former British prime minister, who was a massive Trump fan.

Yeah.

There are some questions here, but the key one for me is about the European reaction.

More muted than one might expect, but noteworthy that even leaders like the Czech Prime Minister Babish, someone hardly seen as being pro-Ukraine, said in a press conference in the last twenty-four hours that Trump, in essence, betrayed us by striking that deal with Putin.

We must do something.

Now another leader said this, "It's not for Trump to dictate who should lead Ukraine.

So some interesting remarks out of Europe over the last, uh, day or so.

Now, Zelensky was in Brussels yesterday, I think he's still there today, meeting with European leaders.

One of them was the Belgian Prime Minister, Bart De Wever, though we hear the talks failed to yield any significant breakthrough on the two hundred billion euros frozen of Russian assets.

Shock.

Belgium's federal coalition has failed to agree on a budget consolidation package intended to close a projected gap of more than 10 billion euros by 2029.

The impasse forced Prime Minister Bart De Wever to postpone his State of the Union address and the accompanying budget presentation to Parliament.

an unusual step that has raised questions about whether the five-party coalition can hold together long enough to deliver a credible fiscal plan.

Belgium is also under pressure to submit a medium-term budgetary strategy to the European Commission, and the delay pushes any finalized package into late October or possibly November.

Belgium.

Unions staged a second day of nationwide strikes against planned government budget cuts today, partially shutting down Belgium's public sector amidst mounting pressure on Prime Minister Bart De Wever over a stalled budget agreement.

Nobel Prizes.

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Student-led protests saw over 70,000 people take to the streets across France yesterday, with police detaining more than 500 people.

Trade unions are demonstrating in Brussels today against Prime Minister Bart de Wever's austerity measures and labour reforms.

Thousands of people are expected and there will be major disruption to transport.

A national day of action on Monday is also expected to disrupt public services all over the country.