The EU and the West's premise is simple and comforting: Hamas must go, Israel will not rule Gaza, and therefore a reformed Palestinian Authority must step in. But this consensus rests on a political fiction, writes Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah.

The European Commission has opened an investigation into X due to risks from integrating its AI chatbot Grok directly into the platform — examining if Elon Musk's social media platform complies with the risk assessment and mitigation requirements under the Digital Services Act.

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.

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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