The European Commission's updated Anti-Racism Strategy has drawn sharp criticism from civil society, who say it failed to target anti-immigrant rhetoric.

EU countries are pursuing different approaches to respond to Trump’s tariff threats over the Greenland crisis, but there is no “golden formula,” and a full-blown trade war with Washington could further weaken already fragile US security guarantees with Nato and Ukraine.

MEPs inflicted a major defeat on the EU Commission’s trade agenda on Wednesday, after narrowly passing a resolution that effectively delays ratification of the Mercosur trade pact, potentially for up to a year. 

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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