AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoKarlovy Vary Film Festival: Aung Phyoe’s Myanmar-set debut Fruit Gathering won the festival’s top Crystal Globe (Grand Prix), praised for turning a tender portrait of work and friendship into a tense story of obsession and queer desire; Mads Mengel’s The Guest took the Special Jury Prize and Best Director, while Anna Schinz won Best Actress for A Happy Family and Ghassan Saad earned Best Actor for Pipes—with the Slovak-Czech romance Lover, Not a Fighter winning the Proxima top prize. Church & Eastern Catholics: Pope Leo XIV appointed Vienna Archbishop Josef Grünwidl as Ordinary for the Catholic Eastern Churches, succeeding Cardinal Schönborn, in a leadership handover set for this fall. EU Culture Jobs: Eurostat reports the EU cultural sector employed 8.9 million people in 2025 (4.3% of total employment), with Slovakia at 3.3%. Slovak sports spotlight: At the FIBA U20 Women’s EuroBasket Division B in Bulgaria, Slovakia’s Alexandra Chovanikova made the All-Star Five as Portugal won the title and promotion. Travel & visas: Kuwait published a list of 52 countries eligible for tourist visa on arrival, and Saudi Arabia released its 2026 eVisa eligibility list for 40 European countries.
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