Digital Journal | Elevating voices

Polish farmers descended on Warsaw on Friday to protest a European trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc, marching just moments after it was accepted by a majority of EU nations in Brussels.
Over a thousand protestors gathered, some arriving on their tractors, to again denounce a deal many fear will lead to unfair competition in the bloc....

France has the right to say “no” to its historical ally the United States when it acts in a way deemed unacceptable, the foreign minister said on Friday, warning that the European political order was “in danger”.
In his annual address to France’s ambassadors, Jean-Noel Barrot warned that the European Union was threatened by adversaries from the outside, and also hit back at US claims Europe faced “civilisational erasure”....

Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that war was “back in vogue” and highlighted the “ambition of belligerents”, as his own country the United States flexes its military muscles.
In a New Year’s message to diplomats at the Vatican, his first since becoming head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics last May, Leo lamented the weakness of multilateralism, saying dialogue was being replaced by a “diplomacy based on force”....

Prague has long been a tourism hub thanks to its Baroque architecture and deep cultural history, but its latest draw — a statue of thousands of books made famous on TikTok — has blindsided officials in the Czech capital.
The “Idiom”, a statue by Slovak artist Matej Kren, is a cylindrical tower of 8,000 books with a tear-shaped entrance and mirrors at each end, creating the impression of an endless tunnel....