Category: 3. Europe

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appeared to take Trump’s threats at face value, warning that such an attack would spell the end of NATO. “The American president should be taken seriously when he says he wants Greenland,” she said on Monday. “If the U.S. chooses to attack another…

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump in Florida, with the Ukrainian leader pitching a 20-point peace plan that would see the U.S. provide security guarantees to Kyiv and the country’s eastern Donbas region turned into a free economic zone.

On Tuesday, around…

Trump has long pushed for the mineral-rich island, which is largely autonomous but part of Denmark and therefore belongs to the NATO military alliance, to join the U.S., calling it a strategic necessity and refusing to rule out using force or economic coercion.  

“We need…

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05/01/2026 – 17:33 GMT+1

It’s another crucial week for the contentious Mercosur deal. European Union agriculture ministers will meet on Wednesday for key political talks that…

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05/01/2026 – 17:17 GMT+1

Growing global backlash to xAI’s sexually explicit artificial intelligence-generated imagery has forced the company, owned by Elon Musk, to address…

“Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela,” Davey argued. “Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with…

Under the EU’s voting rules, a so-called qualified majority — of 15 out of the bloc’s 27 member countries representing 65 percent of its population — would be needed to back the deal that has been in the works for a quarter century.

Italy, with its large population, effectively…

In a statement on Monday, a European Union spokeswoman framed the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as an “opportunity for a democratic transition” that should be led by the Venezuelan people, rather than by Maduro’s immediate successor, Delcy Rodríguez.

That stance puts the…