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The Commission president told her centre-right allies that the EU will have its own security strategy this year

'Europe needs to get more competitive,' Ryanair CEO O'Leary says

Russia’s ‘digital tanks’ are already in Europe, minister warns

Parties including Germany’s AfD, France’s Reconquête and Hungary’s Fidesz 'weaken the Union's digital legislation and democratic values', per an amendment to the report, obtained by Euractiv

Paris moves to head off protests amid rising farm unrest

Brussels leaves open the possibility of buying weapons from the US

Discussions about Greenland and the US's plans for a takeover will be held in Washington today. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with his Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Motzfeldt. US Vice President JD Vance, who has emphasised his country's security interests and advised Europeans to take Trump seriously on the matter, also plans to attend. Europe's press points to a major conflict of interests within Nato.

In an interview for the British podcast The Rest is Politics, Maia Sandu, President of the Republic of Moldova, said that she would vote in favour of unification with Romania if a referendum were held on the issue. She noted that for a small country like Moldova, it was becoming "increasingly difficult to survive as a democracy, as a sovereign country." Reactions in both countries are divided.