Today's episode is presented by Instagram.

Instagram is calling for EU regulation requiring age verification and parental approval at the app store where apps are downloaded.

To give parents more control over which apps their teens download.

To learn more, visit Instagram.com slash parental approval.

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Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

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I'm Sarah Wheaton, host of EU Confidential.

And this week, the senior producer, Deanna Starris and I,

were kind of joking around as we tried to write this very script.

I like that. I sent myself into a giggling fit with this cheesy line. Let me see if I can say it without laughing.

Europe is getting slapped around, literally and figuratively. You know, the whole thing

with, like, Macron getting smacked by his wife on camera. But then we were like, you know,

besides that, it's not really that true. Like, this week, there were signs that Brussels is starting to take more agency on some of the major issues.

Take Budapest.

Rather than standing by as Victor Orban works to ban a major LGBTQ celebration, a majority of EU capitals are asking for Brussels to intervene.

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