As Lithuania prepares to host the NATO summit in July 2023, the country is facing a major political scandal involving politicians' expenses.

News outlet Euractiv confirmed that the European Public Prosecutor’s office is now investigating Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ administration for facilitating the illegal export of the spyware known as Predator to countries in Asia and Africa.

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán’s State of the Nation address included a promise to remain neutral in the Russian war on Ukraine and maintain economic ties with Russia.

Greece’s ruling New Democracy government survived a no-confidence vote initiated by the main opposition party SYRIZA over the wiretapping scandal “Predatorgate”.

The Czech Republic is considering making the spread of fake news illegal in its efforts to tackle disinformation. The country saw a surge in disinformation networks during the pandemic and since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Hungarian teachers have been protesting against low wages, exhausting working hours, and their general working conditions that they believe are not conducive to educating the next generations.

In December 2022 and January 2023, news about Belgium was dominated by the so-called “Qatargate” scandal.

Poland appears to have started reinstating judges suspended or demoted for being critical of the government, as this is one of the key conditions that the EU set for disbursing the COVID recovery funds to Poland.

Spain is proving to be the most difficult country to probe in the investigation of the use of spyware. In November 2022 Joanna Giménez and a photojournalist were arrested as they attempted to cover a protest by environmental activists.

A demonstration under the slogan "Czech Republic First!", which gathered around 70,000 people, called on the government to abandon its pro-Western agenda, withdraw from NATO and the EU, drop sanctions against Russia, and agree on gas prices.