Youpe Last Week

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Another week and another look at another week’s goings-on in Europe, or as Grandma Riva, born in Horadenka, Ukraine, circa 1888 — featured here holding a very young Jack Friedman after being called away from her weekly poker game — called it, “Youpe.”

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, wants a change in French law that would allow “false information” to be blocked. He and his wife, Brigitte, have filed a legal case against conservative American commentator Candace Owen, who claimed Brigitte was a transgender woman. Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary, says he will continue buying Russian oil, even thought EU leaders have called on members to stop dealing with Putin, while the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have cut links with Russia’s power grid. Finland held on to its title as world’s happiest country, even though it is suffering manufacturing layoffs and housing affordability. One worker, Juho-Pekka Palomaa, unemployed for months, offered a solution. “The sauna is a place where everyone’s so equal ... You cannot say based on someone’s appearance what they do for a living, who they are.” When Palomaa asked social media followers what to do on his 1,000th day of unemployment, he got a million views and a flood of suggestions - including one he took: a bring-your-own-food party to the steps of parliament. In Spain, the largest pork producer . . .