The pro-Russian and Euroskeptic Rumen Radev won the legislative elections in Bulgaria with up to 39% of the votes, a clear but insufficient victory to govern alone, according to the first exit polls.

Europe took a new step this Monday to defend itself autonomously, without so much dependence on the United States. During a summit in Paris, ten countries, including Spain, launched “the coalition against ballistic missiles,” with a “purely defensive” vocation, aimed at jointly developing or at least coordinating efforts to equip themselves with systems that serve to protect against attacks like those carried out by Russia against Ukraine.

Cuba wants to end what it calls an “energy siege” and the United States wants the adoption of far-reaching reforms. Havana maintains that there is no ultimatum, but U.S. officials assure that Washington gave a two-week deadline to release relevant political prisoners as a sign of goodwill. The two countries, separated by less than one hundred kilometers of sea and ideological enemies, speak different languages and seem far from any agreement, but they are dialoguing.