The Greenland crisis can be used as a strategic trigger to reinvigorate the Nordic enlargement of the European Union, with Iceland and Norway offered membership. Germany, France, and the United Kingdom should also offer bilateral defence treaties to Oslo and Reykjavík — providing a politically significant safety net should Nato become paralysed.

As EU leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday evening for an emergency summit on US relations, a stark dilemma looms over the talks: how to defend European interests in Trump's new world order, without blowing up the post-war transatlantic security architecture it still depends on.

The European Court of Auditors twice told rightwing and far-right MEPs that its report was not about NGO transparency, but about whether the European Commission ensures transparency in allocating EU funds to non-governmental organisations.

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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