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US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe [FREE TO READ] State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

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Kyiv’s great freeze [FREE TO READ] Russian strikes have plunged Ukrainians into their hardest winter yet, but they still want to fight on

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Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe’s key satellites, officials believe [FREE TO READ] Unencrypted European communications are being targeted by Moscow

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Italian far-right activists push for ‘remigration’ law [FREE TO READ] Extremist groups launch petition that would force parliament to debate law on mass deportations

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Bike lanes vs narcos: French mayors step up fight against drug gangs [FREE TO READ] Growing problem sparks concern that far right could take advantage in local elections

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Russian oil income drops sharply as sanctions bite [FREE TO READ] Moscow’s energy revenues fell by a fifth in 2025 compared with previous year

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Why Taco is a problem for Europe [FREE TO READ] The continent needs a sense of crisis in order to change, and Donald Trump keeps it just short of that

The idea that hope is a kind of torment, that outright crisis is at least mentally clarifying, was most famously expressed by John Cleese and his 1986 road caper Clockwise: “It’s not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It’s the hope.”
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The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose [FREE TO READ] Looming US sanctions risk cutting fuel supplies to German capital, prompting government to review Rosneft expropriation

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‘It’s about trust’: Donald Trump’s fresh tariff threats push Europe to harden its stance [FREE TO READ] Aggressive US rhetoric over Greenland demands a change in strategy by the EU and UK, officials say

as.ft.com/r/4c493b50-c... ‘It’s about trust’: Donald Trump’s fresh tariff threats push Europe to harden its stance

Germany set to approve €50bn in military purchases [FREE TO READ] Bundestag asked to sign off on multibillion contracts, including a €21bn order for soldiers’ protective equipment

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Giorgia Meloni’s European moment comes with a price [FREE TO READ] Italy’s enigmatic leader holds a casting vote this week on two crucial issues for the EU

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Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails [FREE TO READ] Greens-Labour and Christian Democrats vow to form coalition without Geert Wilders’ party after elections on Wednesday

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Trump-Putin summit in Budapest unsettles Europe [FREE TO READ] Volodymyr Zelenskyy objects to Hungary’s pro-Russian leader hosting meeting aimed at ending Moscow’s invasion

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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia [FREE TO READ] US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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EU offers to buy US weapons for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets [FREE TO READ] Proposal aims to keep Donald Trump on Kyiv’s side amid signs of US-Russia détente

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How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine [FREE TO READ] Fraught summit in Anchorage marked a nadir that reshaped how the presidents approach each other

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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto [FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

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The Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine [FREE TO READ] The US president has floated selling Kyiv a long-range weapon capable of striking Moscow

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French PM to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027 [FREE TO READ] Sébastien Lecornu hopes concession will suffice to secure left’s support

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Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup [FREE TO READ] FSB launches fresh criminal case against former Yukos oil magnate and 22 other dissidents in exile

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Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free [FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeking to reignite economy and address challenges of a shrinking workforce

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German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders [FREE TO READ] Budget committee stalls government plans to speed up defence procurement

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Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities [FREE TO READ] Job of protecting critical national infrastructure grows more complex as Russia tests Nato members

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Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk [FREE TO READ] State modernisation minister Karsten Wildberger promises to bring about digital age in country clinging to fax machines

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Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport [FREE TO READ] PM Mette Frederiksen refuses to rule out Russian involvement as Nato and EU blame Moscow’s ‘reckless’ behaviour in recent airspace breaches

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‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs [FREE TO READ] Historic smuggling haven of Newry plays host to bargain-hunters from the Republic looking for new legal drugs

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Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea [FREE TO READ] Heng Yang 9 stops in Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, which has been under western sanctions since 2014

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EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system [FREE TO READ] Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’

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