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.

EU leaders are set to sign trade and defence agreements with India next Tuesday during a three-day summit — closing what European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has described as the “mother of all trade deals”.

Ongoing disputes over a series of deportation amendments in the European Parliament suggest that the liberal MEP steering the negotiations is edging closer to the far-right.

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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