8 h. ago France’s Macron warns US under Trump is ‘turning away’ from allies – Europe live

French president warned the US under Donald Trump was ‘breaking free from international rules’Another news line dominating this week’s coverage of European politics is to do with Greenland, and the US president Donald Trump’s ambitions to somehow take control of the Danish semiautonomous territory.The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said last night that he had plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland as a crisis escalates within Nato over US threats to take over the Arctic territory. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Danish forces will ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ if Greenland is invaded amid US threats

The White House said this week that Donald Trump was still weighing military intervention as an option to take over Greenland

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25 h. ago Megaphone diplomacy with Donald Trump only makes things worse for Greenland

Editorial: The United States does not need a 51st state to defend Nato’s interests. But as the president considers taking the vast Arctic territory by force, his allies must dissuade him from doing so – in private, and with some creative solutions

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26 h. ago Marco Rubio says he will meet Danish officials to discuss Greenland next week

Remarks by US secretary of state come after Greenland and Denmark request urgent meeting over Trump threatsEurope live – latest updatesThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, says he plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland, amid an escalating crisis within Nato over Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic territory.An urgent meeting had been requested by the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark, which has said that any invasion or seizure of the territory by its Nato ally would mark the end of the western military alliance and “post-second world war security”. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Russia and China fear NATO because of ME: Trump launches ferocious attack on allies as he threatens Greenland invasion

Donald Trump has launched a ferocious attack on his NATO allies just hours after America seized a Russian-flagged tanker in European waters.

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28 h. ago Dithering EU leaders start squabbling among themselves as Trump unleashes chaos: European officials left floundering by Maduro capture and growing threat of Greenland invasion

Blind-sided European leaders have been left floundering by Donald Trump following his capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and the re-emerging threat of an invasion of Greenland. 

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30 h. ago Rubio downplays threat of military invasion of Greenland and instead pushes plans to buy the island

In recent days, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller have escalated desires to acquire Greenland and refused to rule out military invasion

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32 h. ago France and allies discuss possible response to US invasion of Greenland

French, German and Polish foreign ministers to meet amid escalating threats to seize part of Danish kingdomEurope live – latest updatesFrance has said it is working with allies on how to react if the US were to invade Greenland, amid mounting tension over Donald Trump’s escalating threats to take over the Arctic territory.The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said the subject would be discussed at a meeting with the German and Polish foreign ministers on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago How a US takeover of Greenland would undermine Nato from within

The alliance has no provision for the previously unthinkable: one of its members turning on anotherEurope live – latest updatesThe idea that one Nato country could attack another – a US invasion of Greenland – is so alien that the most famous article in Nato’s founding treaty does not distinguish clearly what would happen if two of its members were at war.Article 5, the cornerstone of mutual protection, dictates that “an armed attack against one or more” in Europe or North America shall be considered “an attack against them all”. Simple enough if the military threat comes from Russia, but more complicated when it comes from easily the alliance’s most powerful member. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago What is Nato? Denmark warns Greenland invasion by US would end organisation

Nato would collapse if Donald Trump decides to occupy Greenland, warns the Danish PM

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67 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian strikes kill two and trigger hospital fire ahead of Paris peace talks

Overnight attacks trigger evacuations ‘under fire’ at Kyiv medical facility while European leaders gather to seek peace plan breakthrough. What we know on day 1,413Russian strikes on Ukraine early on Monday killed two people and forced night-time evacuations into freezing temperatures, a day ahead of Ukrainian allies meeting in France to revive diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting. Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner will attend the Paris meeting of the so-called “coalition of the willing” on Tuesday – being hosted by French president Emmanuel Macron – to discuss security guarantees as part of a peace proposal. Russia’s overnight strikes triggered a fire at a private medical facility in Kyiv, killing one person and wounding three others, authorities said. “Doctors and nurses were forced to evacuate the wounded under fire,” Ukraine’s prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said on X. The attack also killed a man in his 70s in the neighbouring city of Fastiv, ...

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer issues Greenland warning to Donald Trump amid invasion fears

Keir Starmer said the UK stands with Denmark amid fears Donald Trump is planning to annex Greenland, a Danish territory which the US President claims is needed for national security

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3 d. ago Growing signs Donald Trump plans Greenland invasion as UK position dubbed 'extraordinary'

Mike Tapp refused to call on Donald Trump not to invade Greenland amid growing alarm after the unpredictable US President said his country 'needs' the Danish territory for national security

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2 w. ago Visa bans by Trump on five Europeans combating online hate and disinformation faces fresh condemnation

France, Germany and Brussels condemned the move as an attack on allies, after Washington barred several figures involved in efforts to combat online hate and disinformation.

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last month Trump has declared civilisational war on Europe. It won’t be easy – but here’s how to fight back | Paul Taylor

With democratic values under attack from populists within and former allies without, there are no simple solutionsThree decades after political philosopher Francis Fukuyama declared the End of History and the “universalisation of western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”, the democratic model is under attack in many parts of the world, not least here in Europe. Populists bent on weakening the rule of law, rolling back human rights protections, subjugating the judiciary and cowing independent journalism are amplified by anything-goes social media algorithms that promote anger and polarisation over rational discourse.They have now received a mandate from the Trump administration, which effectively declared civilisational war on the EU and its values in its National Security Strategy.Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...

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