EU trade officials are facing a break-neck week focused on car tariffs, steel and carbon emissions concession as they bid to sign off on the bloc’s latest trade deal at a special summit in India later this month. 

Far-right parties have teamed up to bring forward a motion of censure against the European Commission over its handling of the Mercosur trade deal.

Left-wing critics of EU foreign relations chief Kaja Kallas have "smelled blood" in joining Russian calls for her resignation on X, as she responded by telling Greenland it was "not alone" against US threats.

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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