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Weber accused Garcia and the Socialists of “harming the European agenda.” During her remarks, the S&D chief shot back: “You know who is responsible for the fact that this pro-European alliance … does not work in this Parliament? It has a name and surname. It is called Manfred Weber.” The exchange reflected a relationship under strain, as the EPP pushed deregulation, weaker green rules, and a crackdown on migration backed by far-right votes after the 2024 election shifted the Parliament to the right. Sidelined by that new math, the Socialists have increasingly felt alienated and have hardened their attacks on von…
Good morning, I’m Mared Gwyn writing from Brussels. Welcome to a packed Tuesday newsletter. Just in: former Danish European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has just told my colleague Méabh Mc Mahon that US President Donald Trump’s ambitions to seize Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, represent an “existential” threat for the NATO miitary alliance. “I know President Trump says he is not reined in by anything but his own morals, but (…) for one NATO country to attack another NATO country for territory, that would be I think the most existential threat to NATO that we have seen,” Vestager told Europe Today.…
For more than two decades, Venezuelan oil functioned less as a commodity and more as a diplomatic instrument, circulating through bilateral agreements, guaranteed loans and barter deals that bypassed traditional market mechanisms. From 1999 onwards, successive governments promoted a strategy linking foreign policy, state financing and management of the country’s main industry. The result was a network of bilateral alliances that channelled much of Venezuela’s crude outside conventional buying and selling circuits. The model consolidated amid high oil prices and mounting financial constraints. Cuba, China, Russia, and Iran became central partners in an architecture that combines energy supply, credits, technical…
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, combined with constant pressure from the US have left the European Union with the single choice of addressing its defence and security capacity. The stakes are high, as here is no end in sight to the war in Ukraine. At the same time, trust is low because Europe appears vulnerable, and both militarily and diplomatically unprepared. Europe’s main imperative is protecting itself while supporting Ukraine. EU leaders agreed last December on a new €90 billion loan for Ukraine, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced new defence initiatives in October, presenting them as…
Updated: 13/01/2026 – 7:20 GMT+1 A geologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland discussed potential difficulties of mining rare earth minerals in Greenland. Diogo Rosa said: “Everyone talks about the rare earths again and that doesn’t mean they are the most feasible to be extracted.” … More
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US President Donald Trump has been briefed on strong options as he weighs whether to order a US military response against the Iranian government over a violent crackdown on protests that have left more than 600 people dead across the country but is holding off for now, after receiving messages from Tehran, the White House said on Monday. Trump has repeatedly threatened Tehran with military action if his administration finds the Islamic Republic is using deadly force against anti-government protesters, a red line Washington says Iran is “starting to cross” and has left Trump and his national security team weighing…
Pahlavi has sought to encourage foreign financial support for workers who will disrupt the state by going on strike. He also called for more Starlink internet terminals to be shipped into Iran, in defiance of a ban, to make it harder for the regime to stop dissidents from communicating and coordinating their opposition. Amid the latest internet shutdowns, Starlink has provided the opposition movements with a vital lifeline. As the protests gathered pace last week, Pahlavi stepped up his own stream of social media posts and videos, which gain many millions of views, encouraging people onto the streets. He started by…
Hristo Rusev/Getty Images Just a year ago, Putin signed a 20-year strategic partnership agreement with Tehran. Now the regime — which supplied Russia with killer Shahed drones for its fight in Ukraine — is in danger of being toppled by protesters whom Trump has indicated he could intervene militarily to defend. Russians have taken notice. “An entire era is coming to an end,” wrote a pro-war military blogger under the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov on Sunday, reflecting growing criticism of the Russian leadership. Russian authorities, he argued, had spent too much time trying to create an image that the country…
Last week, NATO countries asked the alliance to look into options for securing the Arctic, including shifting more military assets to the region and holding more military exercises in Greenland’s vicinity. The U.K. and Germany are reportedly in talks to send troops to the self-ruling Danish territory in an attempt to assuage Washington’s concerns. Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Monday also said the territory would “increase its efforts to ensure that the defense of Greenland takes place under the auspices of NATO.” Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, speaking alongside Rutte, said that “allies have to respect each other, including the U.S.…