The European Commission announced its new cybersecurity package, which creates new ways to phase new high-risk technology from critical EU sectors, including a mandatory system for listing and restricting high-risk telecom and technology providers and countries, and a three-year deadline to phase out high risk 5G.

As EU leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday evening for an emergency summit on Greenland and US tariff threats, a stark dilemma looms over the talks: how to defend European interests in Trump's new world order, without blowing up the post-war transatlantic security architecture it still depends on.

US president briefly took back violent threats against Denmark, but repeated racist anti-EU slurs in his charm offensive at Davos.

Across Europe, mayors and local councillors are facing a disturbing rise in harassment, threats, disinformation, and even physical violence. These aren’t isolated incidents — they are a growing pattern. And they’re not 'just politics'. They are deliberate attempts to silence, intimidate, and push people out of public life, warns the Council of European Municipalities and Regions.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for "private" reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

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