Morning bird: Robert de Niro attacked Trump in Cannes. Poland revealed foreign interference in elections on Facebook

De Niro harshly criticized Trump 

Hollywood actor Robert De Niro used his speech while receiving an award at the film festival in Cannes to criticize US President Donald Trump. The eighty-one-year-old De Niro was receiving the Golden Palm for lifetime achievement at the event in the south of France on Tuesday.

"In my country, we are fighting as if for our lives for a democracy we once took for granted. This concerns all of us here because art is democratic, art is inclusive and unites people, like tonight. Art seeks truth. Art embraces diversity, and that is why art is a threat. That is why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists. The American Philistine president was appointed the head of one of our leading cultural institutions (Kennedy Center). He has reduced funding and support for the arts, humanities, and education,"

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said in a speech according to CNN Robert de Niro at Cannes.

Poland discloses foreign interference in its elections on Facebook

Poland said on Wednesday that it had uncovered a possible attempt to interfere in the presidential campaign through advertising on Facebook, which could have been financed from abroad, which the social media platform denied. European governments are on alert for signs of election interference since Romania in December canceled the ongoing presidential election because of allegations of Russian interference, which Moscow denied.

The first round of the Polish elections is taking place on Sunday, in which the liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, a highly placed member of the ruling Civic Platform party, will face off against historian Karol Nawrocki, who leads the Polish Institute of National Memory, and far-right nationalist Slawomir Mentzen, the agency Reuters reported.

Czechs would defend their homeland, Slovaks wouldn't

According to a public opinion poll by Globsec, the majority of Czechs would not hesitate to defend their country in the event of military threat. The survey compared the situation in Central European countries and in the region, less than half of the respondents negatively answered the question about defending their homeland only in Slovakia.

"Slovakia is an exception in the entire region, as only 49 percent of people would go to fight for their own country. Every year it shows that Czechs and Slovaks are not alike. The gap between the two fraternal nations is starting to become much larger"

The analyst of the Centre for Democracy and Resilience of Globsec, Katarína Klingová, said at a press conference according to ČTK.

For the first time, Merz speaks in the German parliament as chancellor, is planning the largest European army

The new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on Wednesday that he will try to unify Europe's and the USA's approach to Ukraine, allow his country to build the strongest European conventional army and make the largest European economy again the "engine of growth".

The conservative leader took office a week ago after winning the elections in February, thus ending a six-month period when the most populous member state of the European Union did not have a government with a parliamentary majority. He has already undertaken a number of trips to allies in the EU and visited Kiev with his French, Polish, and British counterparts. "Europe expects something from us," Merz said in his first political speech in parliament, promising that "we will offer our partners and friends reliability and predictability," the AP agency reported.