as.ft.com/r/3217586f-2... Germany set to approve €50bn in military purchases @laurapitel.bsky.social

as.ft.com/r/625541e6-3... Giorgia Meloni’s European moment comes with a price

on.ft.com/4ozfoC3 Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails

on.ft.com/4oPyJzl Trump-Putin summit in Budapest unsettles Europe

on.ft.com/42PX0wu Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

on.ft.com/4qdu37G EU offers to buy US weapons for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets

on.ft.com/4onmcmj How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine

on.ft.com/42L9Dc5 FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

on.ft.com/4n9h30b The Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine @christopherjm.ft.com

on.ft.com/4nMH72b French PM to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027

on.ft.com/478fY2C Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup

on.ft.com/46NXmWS Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free @chassnews.bsky.social

on.ft.com/42OsIKr German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders

on.ft.com/48yqMJE Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities

on.ft.com/4npbSdv Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk @chassnews.bsky.social

on.ft.com/4gxC2rG Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport @richardmilne.ft.com

on.ft.com/4pCLGNM ‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs @judewebber.bsky.social

on.ft.com/46xNbEf Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea @christopherjm.ft.com @chriscook.news

on.ft.com/47NTUfL EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system @bmoens.bsky.social @paolatamma.bsky.social

on.ft.com/4gwD4US In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state? @chassnews.bsky.social @olafstorbeck.ft.com

on.ft.com/4nFlZur Germany considers dropping France from flagship fighter jet project

on.ft.com/4muUNh1 EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions

on.ft.com/4nlEBzu Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance

Germany’s central bank is considering abandoning its landmark brutalist headquarters in Frankfurt amid regulatory criticism of a multibillion euro redevelopment of the asbestos-stricken site, where half of the country’s gold reserves are stored. @olafstorbeck.ft.com

The stories of Hamlet and Rørek are one. Without Scandinavian sagas and priestly chroniclers in Kyiv we would not have the famous Shakespearean play,and Russians would lack their origin legend. To understand them is to see how deception and self-deception began a war and worsens it on.ft.com/4n2S2UR

on.ft.com/3V9Zhyc ‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land

on.ft.com/3HDgehg Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit

on.ft.com/45kTRVH Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-communist president, dies at 95

on.ft.com/4fxKarW Meloni revives €13bn Sicilian bridge as part of defence planning

on.ft.com/457vdZW Dmitry Medvedev’s long march from liberal hope to nuclear threat

on.ft.com/45qcMyx Donald Trump readies fresh US sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet

on.ft.com/4oqMHIy Donald Trump’s Fed move is ‘wrong’, says German finance minister

on.ft.com/4lumPJ7 Shoved into vans, slashing tyres: Ukrainians balk at conscription

on.ft.com/45sXeLy Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s moves against anti-graft bodies had chilling effect, warns official

Big numbers, non-binding commitments and still lots of details to iron out: on.ft.com/46ZPWQI

on.ft.com/44OEu8W Bosnia, 30 years on: the looming crisis in the Balkans

on.ft.com/3GxOSbU Liechtenstein hit by Russia-linked ‘zombie trust’ crisis

Europe is finally jolted into into action by a trio of shocks: Putin, Xi and Trump on.ft.com/4erJ3t1

“It’s much worse than a few months ago, the alerts are so long now, all night.” on.ft.com/4kTxE7O

on.ft.com/4l06YT7 Ursula von der Leyen faces no-confidence vote over Pfizergate

on.ft.com/3GaFNWo Germany to boost defence spending at faster rate than France or UK

on.ft.com/44rJuAi How Iran could hit back at the US

on.ft.com/4lhGiwE Cyprus arrests alleged Iranian spy near RAF base

on.ft.com/44ihDkT Italy pioneers subsidised egg-freezing to tackle demographic crisis

on.ft.com/3HSuIts Poland readies art evacuation plans in case of Russian invasion

on.ft.com/445FMLn Europe’s air defence dilemma: can Franco-Italian system rival US Patriot?

on.ft.com/4l8xvNI Russia air attack damaged Boeing offices in Ukraine

on.ft.com/441TZcg Fake McDonald’s lobbies Vladimir Putin to block return of western companies

on.ft.com/444tLGa How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields

on.ft.com/4kuvcEi ‘Crazy’ data protection rules hit German plans to boost army reserve