HUNGARY: The European Union began the process today of clawing back hundreds of millions of euros meant to go to Budapest after the anti-migrant government refused to pay a huge fine for breaking the bloc’s asylum rules.

In June, the top EU court ordered Hungary to pay €200 million (£170m) for persistently depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum. The court imposed an additional fine of €1m (£800,000) for every day it failed to comply.

PORTUGAL: More than 100 wildfires in the country’s north stretched thousands of firefighters to the limit today, with seven deaths since the worst spate of recent years spread out of control over the weekend.