Europeans Are Revealing The Biggest News Stories In Their Countries Right Now That Americans Probably Don't Know About

With truthful overmuch absorption connected home news, it’s casual to hide however overmuch is unfolding astir the world. So to punctual america of the broader planetary picture, u/SprinklesNo164 asked Europeans to shed immoderate airy connected the biggest existent events that galore Americans mightiness not beryllium alert of, providing a glimpse into the issues shaping Europe today.

Here’s what they had to say:

To note, these descriptions of quality events are from individuals. While these sources corroborate the nonsubjective events, immoderate of the descriptions see idiosyncratic interpretations.

1. "Serbia has been protesting for much than 4 months aft the extortion of a railway presumption successful Novi Sad collapsed connected November 1, sidesplitting 16 people. Students person barricaded universities astir the country, and schools person not been operating during this time. They person besides walked for miles to protestation successful antithetic cities to dispersed the connection and link with people. They accidental they volition not halt until their demands for justness and systemic alteration are met. Professors and schoolteachers who enactment them person stopped receiving pay. The authorities utilized an acoustic dependable limb connected protesters a week agone but continues to contradict it. Direct ideology is connected the emergence among the people, but dictatorship is increasing wrong the government."

3. "Turkey. Erdogan locked up his opponent, and radical person been taking to the streets."

4. "Well, for the Americans who don’t know: Conor McGregor is astir surely blameworthy of rape and astir surely plans to tally for president of Ireland. Luckily, that’s conscionable a ceremonial job, but Christ connected a bike, we bash not privation him having the slightest modicum of powerfulness connected the satellite stage. I accidental each this due to the fact that idiosyncratic connected your broadside of the pond elected to bring the cunt to the White House."

7. "Another Pulse nightclub-level calamity that didn’t scope astir American quality outlets: On March 16, 2025, a occurrence astatine a DNK performance successful Macedonia killed astatine slightest 59 people, including the full set but for 1 member. The occurrence was caused by pyrotechnics. It is the deadliest nightclub occurrence successful Europe since the 2015 Bucharest nightclub occurrence and the deadliest occurrence successful North Macedonia’s history."

8. "Tesla’s European income person dropped 45% amid disquiet implicit Musk’s Trump links."

9. "There is present an €840 cardinal program underway to rearm Europe, efficaciously making it a superpower and bringing the epoch of American dominance to an end."

"Let maine clarify my position: This is simply a unspeakable happening that is happening. If you’re moving class, you’ll beryllium the 1 who suffers successful the upcoming wars. Trump is foolish for squandering American powerfulness successful Europe, but helium appears to beryllium doing truthful successful mentation for grabbing mineral-rich territories that large tech companies need. All the bourgeois powers volition soon beryllium doing immoderate mentation of this, due to the fact that superior indispensable perpetually grow oregon collapse."

—u/Burger_Doctor

Source 1: EU main proposes program to ‘urgently’ summation defence spending by mobilizing astir $840 billion (CNBC)

10. "In France, the premier curate has lied astir his cognition — and cover-up — of a unit and pedophilia ungraded astatine a backstage Catholic school."

11. "Let’s not hide the IF Metall onslaught against Tesla successful Sweden, which began connected October 27, 2023, and has go 1 of the longest labour conflicts successful Swedish history. The onslaught began due to the fact that Tesla refuses to motion a corporate statement with the union, challenging the Swedish labour model, successful which astir 90% of the workforce is covered by corporate agreements."

—u/Mjauritz

Source 1: Tesla onslaught successful Sweden continues, national says, contradicting Musk (Reuters)

12. "The person of the Serb-majority portion of Bosnia is defying arrest, violating the constitution, and threatening to rise an army. He’s a separatist. The apprehension warrant for him has not been executed due to the fact that section constabulary successful his portion would apt support him. He has besides been sentenced to jailhouse and banned from politics, but helium remains successful power."

13. "Australia is astir to person an predetermination successful the adjacent month, and it’s virtually a Republican vs. Democrat predetermination circular 2: Electric Boogaloo. Our blimpish (called the Liberal) enactment has started utilizing Trumpist rhetoric successful its property conferences, portion our liberal/left (called Labor) enactment is promising an summation successful healthcare funding. The polls are truthful choky that there’s a monolithic accidental of a hung parliament owed to independents and the Greens."

"I’m saying Australia counts due to the fact that of Eurovision."

—u/WoketrickStar

Source 1: What you request to cognize astir Australia's upcoming election (Reuters)

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