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

Scoop alert: on.ft.com/43pOp30 Merz backs Nord Stream ban to prevent US and Russia restarting gas link

on.ft.com/45hH4Fb Three elections, one message: Europe’s Maga populists are on the rise

on.ft.com/3S7L8jI Trump leaves Russia and Ukraine to settle war in talks

Logo politics. Making sure the tabloids can’t spot EU on.ft.com/45evyug

What a night! on.ft.com/4jVJgqt Pro-EU centrist wins Romanian presidency in stunning reversal

Viktor Orbán backing Romanian nationalist riles up Hungarian voters

Romanians face stark choice in presidential poll between pro-western orientation and “culture of violence and hate”, says centrist candidate Nicușor Dan

on.ft.com/3YD7sW7 George Simion, Romania’s ultranationalist president in waiting

on.ft.com/4dcGcUf Ukraine accuses Hungary of running spies on its soil to gather intel for Hungarian incursion

Romania’s presidential election pits Maga-style nationalist against pro-EU centrist

Boris Pistorius stays on as Germany’s defence minister in Merz’s coalition https://www.ft.com/content/37f9c6f5-17c0-4fee-a729-8475a8bc9a2d

Broken justice: the return of the ‘Italian torpedo’

An early favourite to succeed the late Pope Francis, cardinal Pietro Parolin had helped engineer a controversial deal giving Beijing a formal say in the appointment of Catholic bishops in China. www.ft.com/content/b5d1...

Hard-right candidate wins Romania’s election rerun — exit polls

New German government wants to make meat consumption great again