Space

BFFs Putin and Xi blast Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile shield
The U.S. president’s plan is “deeply destabilizing,” Moscow and Beijing say.

Biden says Trump-Zelenskyy clash was ‘beneath America’

Greenland belongs to Greenlanders, EU’s top diplomat warns

Trump still wants Canada and Greenland; says attack on Canada ‘highly unlikely’

Europe needs to up its space game to fend off Musk, Russia and China

Embattled Voice of America may resume broadcasting next week

Britain’s shrinking fraud watchdog
Netherlands delays nitrogen emissions target, defying its own judges and the EU
Dutch government buys time for farmers but tests the limits of domestic courts and EU environmental law.
The jaded English town where Nigel Farage could hammer Labour
Westminster is champing at the bit to see if Reform UK wins a crucial by-election against Labour next week. Locals are indifferent.
Musk’s shadow grows over space industry
CEOs feels a mix of worry and excitement that the world’s biggest space entrepreneur has a hotline to the president.
Vladimir Putin lauds Elon Musk as rare pioneer
Russian president praises the space entrepreneur (and Donald Trump adviser) as a great visionary.
Postwar Russian energy return ‘illusory,’ Belgium says
Belgian Energy Minister Mathieu Bihet told POLITICO he wants to phase out the country’s Russian gas imports — but didn’t back an outright ban.
EU warms to boosting defense funding to secure eastern flank
Eastern EU countries like Poland say they are currently bearing the financing brunt.
Britain’s MPs back powers to take control of British Steel
Dramatic intervention follows tense standoff with Chinese firm Jingye, British Steel’s owner.
NATO chief is worried about Russian space nukes
“The development of nuclear weapons in space is a way for Russia to improve its capabilities,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte tells Welt am Sonntag.
Pentagon fires Greenland base commander after she criticized JD Vance visit
Actions to “subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated,” U.S. military warns.
EU channels inner ‘Buddha’ as it reels from White House shocks
Finance ministers gathering in Warsaw will discuss tariffs and rearmament.
EU to Trump on tariffs: We’ll retaliate when we’re ready, not when you tweet
Brussels suspended its countermeasures against the U.S. president’s steel and aluminum tariffs before they even took effect. Now the two sides have 90 days to do a deal.
Was die Koalition schaffen kann – und wo Probleme bleiben
– Merz, Klingbeil, Esken und Söder stellen den Koalitionsvertrag vor. Rasmus Buchsteiner und Gordon Repinski schauen detailliert in die Punkte und besprechen, wer Gewinner und Verlierer des …
Values based partnership: Why the EU needs to accelerate trade with Ukraine
In the face of rising geopolitical tension, greater integration with Ukraine is in the EU’s economic and strategic interest. For progress to be made, both sides must move beyond disputes over agricultural quotas and look at the bigger picture.
EU agonizes over using its trade ‘bazooka’ to hit back at Trump’s mega tariff
As the European Commission plans levies of up to 25 percent on many exports from the U.S., it holds an olive branch in one hand and its Anti-Coercion Instrument in the other.
Ukraine is stuck with Musk’s Starlink for now
Key competitor Eutelsat won’t break Starlink’s grip on Kyiv’s wartime communications overnight.
Danish prime minister to the US: ‘You cannot annex another country’
“What are we to believe in about the country that we have admired for so many years?” Mette Frederiksen said Thursday on Trump’s Greenland threat.
Greece announces ‘drastic’ €25B transformation of defense strategy
The country is splashing the cash on its military after years of austerity.
The Starmer and Reeves double act is about to be tested
A strong, if shallow, partnership at the top has defined Labour in office. Can it hold when the going gets tough?
Vance to travel to Greenland on Friday
The vice president said he would join his wife and visit a Space Force base to “check out what’s going on with the security there.”
Jeremy Clarkson taunts ‘idiot’ Elon Musk over Tesla vandalism
“What makes it so juicy is that he’s being pecked to death by the very people who put him on the pedestal in the first place. The eco hippies.”
Italy’s Starlink talks at ‘standstill’ amid Musk outrage, minister says
Italian opposition parties have fiercely criticized a potential secure communications deal between Strarlink and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government.
Meet the Czech Millennial Who’s Building a Utopia in the California Hayfields
Armed with tech billions, Jan Sramek has dreams of creating a new, affordable, walkable city. If, that is, California lets him.
French academic denied entry to US for ‘personal opinion’ on Trump
The Trump administration had recently accused Europe of curtailing free speech.
Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding
Twelve EU capitals want programs to bring over American scholars.