After president Trump’s repeated proclamations that he wants ‘to have Greenland’, military officials and diplomats from Greenland, Denmark and NATO have been trying to find a way-out of the current crisis. The EU should step in and defuse the artificial tensions through democratic means.

EU states mostly kept quiet on US military threats against Iran, while China voiced outrage, at nerve-wracking UN talks in New York.  

There was intense digital interference during last year's Dutch parliamentary elections, with generative AI political content playing an increasing role and producing vast engagement, according to the Dutch Hybrid Election Integrity Observatory.

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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