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

Bulgaria and Hungary have joined Donald Trump's Board of Peace as EU member states remain perplexed by a concept that challenges the United Nations.

Nato is to draw up plans for a new Arctic security mission by July, as one former Italian admiral voices "faith" in US military ties despite the Greenland crisis.

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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