French anti-riot police fired teargas on Saturday as clashes erupted during protests in central Paris against COVID-19 restrictions and a vaccination campaign, television reported.

Hungary appeared to backtrack on plans to build a Chinese university in Budapest after thousands took to the streets at the weekend against it, news wires reported. PM Viktor Orban opponents accuse his governmemnt that the planned $2bn campus could undercut the quality of higher education and help Beijing increase its influence within Hungary and the EU.

A violent May Day demonstration in Berlin resulted in more than 50 police officers injured and over 250 participants detained, the GdP police union in the German capital said on Sunday.

Thousands of opposition supporters protested on Sunday in North Macedonia’s capital of Skopje demanding retrials and freedom for more than a dozen former conservative government officials convicted for their roles in a mob invasion of parliament in 2017, AP reported.

Thousands of people around Russia joined on Wednesday unauthorised rallies to protest against the detention of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, news wires reported. They are calling for Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, to receive proper medical care. More than 1,000 people were reportedly arrested.

Thousands of people gathered today in Berlin to protest against lockdown measures designed to contain the coronavirus pandemic, ahead of a vote in parliament, dpa reported. Over 2,200 police was deployed to guard the parliament building as the Bundestag debated a law that would create national guidelines for coronavirus lockdowns.

Several thousand people in Serbia rallied on Saturday demanding that the government protect the environment in a Balkan nation that has seen record levels of air pollution and scores of other ecological problems following decades of neglect, AP reported.

Seven people were arrested outside the London headquarters of Barclays bank on Wednesday after climate change activists broke windows to protest the role of the financial sector in climate change, news wires reported. “You may dislike our action today but I ask you to compare a crack in a window to funding wildfires and flooded homes,” said a campaigner cited by Reuters.

Thousands gathered on Tuesday evening in Romania's main cities for a third consecutive day outside government's offices to demand an end to coronavirus restrictions including a curfew, news wires reported. Protesters called on the cabinet of PM Florin Citu to quit and lift a months long state of alert implying mandatory use of face masks at all times outdoor and indoor, travel curbs and business closures.

Ten people were reportedly arrested in the city of Bristol in southwest England on Friday after protests over a new policing bill once again turned violent with people throwing glass bottles and bricks at officers.