Populist radical right parties are expected to gain votes and seats in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections due to the EU leadership's tendency to favor multinational interests over European interests.

It all took place as European Union agriculture ministers had gathered for a meeting.

Protesting farmers set fire to tires and blocked roads with their tractors on the sidelines of a meeting of European agriculture ministers in Brussels.

An adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the EU’s pressure on Hungary over Ukraine amounts to “political rape”.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories, 16:00 GMT on January 29, 2024.

Farmers rally in front of the European parliament in Brussels.

The death toll has topped 25,000 men, women and children, with thousands more entombed under the rubble, presumed dead.