Denmark’s ‘socialist’ leader is a race-baiting fake, not an EU model
“People with an Islamic background … do not want an open, free European society,” Frederiksen told MPs, in reaction to a humanitarian crisis in Morocco.
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Russia is adapting its drone-warfare strategy, with faster and deadlier ‘Shaheds’ (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,636)As Moscow floods Ukraine with faster Shahed “drone-missiles”, built with smuggled Western tech, Kyiv races to improvise new defences, while civilians from Chernihiv to Odesa pay the price.
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Italy’s fuel tax cuts don’t make EU list for budget flexibility, despite Meloni’s appeal
Budget flexibility is explicitly ruled out for any kind of fossil-fuel tax cut or subsidy, including income-based support aimed at cushioning high energy bills for households and businesses.
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Europe’s dangerous art of anti-Muslim doublespeak
“Of course, this isn’t against all Muslims,” the EPP says reassuringly, only against those who practice “political Islam as an ideology.” And of course it is not intended to be a “discriminatory enterprise.’”
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Journalists need to report on who is causing the climate crisis, so that the EU public feels it can make a change
Most media reporting on extreme weather doesn’t talk about the root causes or solutions. That contributes to people feeling powerless at a time when they need to mobilise and push their governments into taking action.
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[Interview] Ukrainian frontline reporter Diana Bucko: ‘I have learned not only to report on the war, but also to live in it’
In a war where whole cities vanish one by one and elderly residents calmly say they have “nothing left to live for”, Bucko’s journey from tearful rookie to hardened veteran exposes the quiet emotional toll behind every frontline report.
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Greek billionaire’s ships carried €2.35bn of Russian Arctic gas to Europe this year
Russia’s ‘Yamal’ LNG facility is located at Sabetta, a purpose-built port in the Arctic Ocean, where ice thickness can reach two metres during winter months.
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Slumping cocoa price leaves West Africa’s farmers struggling to comply with EU’s anti-deforestation law
Having been well placed to implement a track and trace regime for cocoa, West Africa’s four producers, whose cocoa beans are responsible for 75 percent of the world’s chocolate, are struggling to cope with the effects of slumping prices.
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Ceuta border battles show how EU is funding anti-migrant brutality
EU funds for third countries to stop migrants are paying for police brutality, desert dumping, and racist profiling, as last seen in Morocco’s operation to stop people entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
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Russia used AI slop to discredit news of Ukraine’s territorial gains (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,635)Ukraine’s strike on the Samara rocket plant and creeping gains in the Oleksandrivka sector signal a new phase of the war, where control of space internet, long‑range missiles, and logistics hubs could matter more than another few kilometres of trench.
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EU action against ‘The Com’, a nihilist online extremist network, shows that security policies might be outdated
A joint EU police crackdown on a “nihilistic” extremist platform has exposed how old categories of jihadist, far-right, or far-left terrorism have failed to keep pace with evolving threats.
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Morocco flaunts power to stop EU-bound migrants
Morocco has shown it could stop people swimming to Spanish enclaves if it wanted to, amid fears in Spain and Portugal it was abusing the crisis to extort political concessions.
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Russia killed Austria’s dream of peace, but military service is also cheap labour
As Austria’s leaders insist Russia’s war means longer duty for young men, critics warn the plan quietly doubles as a cheap-labour fix for struggling hospitals and emergency services.
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[Interview] EU’s carmakers face their own Nokia challenge to survive Chinese threat, says industry expert
China turns years of state‑backed EV strategy into a global export offensive. Europe is scrambling to defend not only Volkswagen and its satellites, but its wider geopolitical leverage in the green tech race.
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Morocco emboldened by strong US ties, amid fears of second migrant surge into Spanish enclaves
Morocco seeks to build a ‘golden age’ in relations with the United States in a bid to push for new concessions on the status of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa.
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Southern Europe leads boom in young, high-growth firms, as Germany falls behind
Startups in the EU have struggled to scale-up, but recent growth in unexpected parts of Europe, has reduced pessimism on Silicon Valley’s long-overshadowed counterparts.
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Ukrainian drones wipe out elite US brigade in drills, as Europe bankrolls Kyiv and US aid falls to zero (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,632)As Washington cedes both military aid and battlefield know-how to Europe and Ukrainian instructors, Moscow probes for breakthroughs around Chasiv Yar and Kostyantynivka that could redraw the eastern front.
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German spies to get offensive powers, breaking post-Cold War taboo on ‘secret police’
Germany’s spies, long mocked as passive note‑takers, are suddenly being groomed for a far more dangerous role – one that even some of their political backers now fear has “overshot the mark”.
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Europe’s climate-elephant in the room: What to do with left-over emissions when we get to net zero?
As Brussels hails its 2040 climate target, officials quietly admit that without a clear plan for the “leftover” emissions from farming, industry, and aviation, Europe’s promise of climate neutrality risks becoming a statistics charade.
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As new president András Baka arrives, is Orbán preparing to leave Hungary? (Day 94 of the Tisza government)
Not even the energy crisis or the extreme heat could slow down Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar and his party’s, Tisza’s, transformation of the political system. Although not without missteps, the new prime minister followed through on the campaign he launched in April to replace the president of the republic, completing it by mid-August.