Greenland’s young prime minister faces intense scrutiny, stressing sovereignty as a red line, openness to dialogue, environmental laws, Nato ties, and fatigue over threats and media attention.

The far-right founder of Portugal's Chega (“Enough”), André Ventura, is a former sports TV commentator from the world of showbusiness — and came a close second in January's presidential election on an anti-Roma, anti-Muslim, racist and sexist platform.

EU Council president António Costa and commission president Ursula von der Leyen are visiting India this week to finalise a trade agreement while MEPs in Brussels will discuss the EU-US trade deal and the next long-term EU budget.

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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