EU offers Turkey upgrade, as Sweden nears Nato entry

Turkey has shifted attention to US warplanes from Koran-burning in endless bargaining on Sweden's Nato entry.

Koran-burnings in Sweden are to go on as before, despite its upgrade of the terrorist threat from "violent Islamism".

Another Koran burning is set to take place in Sweden on Thursday, risking Muslim anger and feeding Russian propaganda.

Russia has become "totally unsafe" for foreign investors, the EU foreign service has warned in reaction to the daylight robbery of Carlsberg and Danone.

Russia's raid on Carlsberg and Danone will likely see other foreign firms still there "stampede to the exit", the Yale School of Management says. "It's ridiculously risky and foolish for them to stay there."

Russia's latest attack on EU national-level probes into last year's Nord Stream 2 blast fell on largely deaf ears at the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

Russia cannot block Nato from taking in new members, the alliance has said, amid preparations for Sweden and, one day, Ukraine to join.

There is widespread human exposure to so-called 'forever chemicals' — technically known as PFAS — in Europe, with growing hotspots identified in Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, and Denmark, experts warned in a new piece of research.

Now summer is officially here, temperatures are rising and the risk of wildfires increases — how prepared are EU member states to respond to such emergencies?

Consuming more than 350 grammes of meat per week can harm health and environment, according to new public nutrition advice from the Nordic Council. A Swedish minister quickly refused to follow the advice.

Researchers found that global societal costs of the so-called forever chemicals or PFAS amount to €16 trillion per year. Meanwhile, the bigger producers of these chemicals are also among the ones spending the most to lobby EU policies.

It is problematic that many EU countries have rules that basically exclude men who have sex with men from the possibility to be blood donors. These bars are not evidence based.

GDP is an unreliable indicator of economies' capacity to thrive in times of change. And the over-reliance on GDP won't get our economies on track to meet environmental and social goals when crises hit.

Acts of sabotage on wind farms or the underwater electricity grid are likely to be carried out as 'grey zone tactics', state-sponsored sabotage may be disguised as a civilian accident, or carried out from a leisure yacht or fishing boat.