The European Commission opened two procedures to clarify for Google the bloc's Digital Markets Act requirements for allowing alternative AI services to have the same access to Android as Google Gemini, and to explain Google's search data-sharing obligations.

The EU will double its funding for Greenland and hopes to ramp up cooperation with Nuuk and other overseas countries and territories, the bloc’s international partnerships commissioner told MEPs on Wednesday, after weeks of heightened tensions and the threat of US military action to seize the island. 

Lithuania has warned that balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus could soon be repurposed to transport weapons, as Vilnius considers deploying anti-personnel mines along their shared border. Some of the balloons hover at 10km altitudes with speeds up to 200km.

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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