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Dutch voters eye return to centre after far-right experiment fails [FREE TO READ] Greens-Labour and Christian Democrats vow to form coalition without Geert Wilders’ party after elections on Wednesday

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Trump-Putin summit in Budapest unsettles Europe [FREE TO READ] Volodymyr Zelenskyy objects to Hungary’s pro-Russian leader hosting meeting aimed at ending Moscow’s invasion

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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia [FREE TO READ] US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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EU offers to buy US weapons for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets [FREE TO READ] Proposal aims to keep Donald Trump on Kyiv’s side amid signs of US-Russia détente

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How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine [FREE TO READ] Fraught summit in Anchorage marked a nadir that reshaped how the presidents approach each other

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

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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto [FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

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The Tomahawk missiles Trump is considering for Ukraine [FREE TO READ] The US president has floated selling Kyiv a long-range weapon capable of striking Moscow

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French PM to freeze Macron’s pension reform until 2027 [FREE TO READ] Sébastien Lecornu hopes concession will suffice to secure left’s support

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Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup [FREE TO READ] FSB launches fresh criminal case against former Yukos oil magnate and 22 other dissidents in exile

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

Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free [FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeking to reignite economy and address challenges of a shrinking workforce

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German lawmakers object to arms contracts without open tenders [FREE TO READ] Budget committee stalls government plans to speed up defence procurement

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Denmark drone incidents expose European airspace vulnerabilities [FREE TO READ] Job of protecting critical national infrastructure grows more complex as Russia tests Nato members

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Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk [FREE TO READ] State modernisation minister Karsten Wildberger promises to bring about digital age in country clinging to fax machines

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Denmark suffers ‘serious attack’ on infrastructure with drones closing airport [FREE TO READ] PM Mette Frederiksen refuses to rule out Russian involvement as Nato and EU blame Moscow’s ‘reckless’ behaviour in recent airspace breaches

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‘We had a stampede’: Irish surge across border for weight-loss jabs [FREE TO READ] Historic smuggling haven of Newry plays host to bargain-hunters from the Republic looking for new legal drugs

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Chinese cargo ship docks in Russian-occupied Crimea [FREE TO READ] Heng Yang 9 stops in Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, which has been under western sanctions since 2014

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EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system [FREE TO READ] Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’

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In charts: Can Germany afford its €1.35tn welfare state? [FREE TO READ] Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants benefit cuts, but his coalition partners are pushing back

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

EU plans to unlock €550mn for Hungary to secure Russian energy sanctions [FREE TO READ] Brussels seeks Viktor Orbán’s backing to bring forward ban on Russian LNG and lower oil price cap

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Lea Ypi: How to think about surveillance [FREE TO READ] A picture of her grandmother posted on social media sent the author to the archives of Albania’s former security services — and raised difficult questions about who watches us today

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Asbestos, gold and spiralling costs: Bundesbank weighs abandoning Frankfurt headquarters [FREE TO READ] A €3.3bn refurbishment of the brutalist site has come under fire from Germany’s Federal Audit Office

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.
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The myths that made Putin’s war [FREE TO READ] The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder

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
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‘Red lines’: Ukraine fears more Russian aggression if it gives up land [FREE TO READ] Zelenskyy’s anxiety over territorial concessions increases in the face of Putin’s maximalist demands

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Domes, prayers and protests: Anchorage awaits Trump-Putin summit [FREE TO READ] Ukrainian refugees in Alaska have mixed feelings about US and Russian leaders’ meeting

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Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-communist president, dies at 95 [FREE TO READ] Former apparatchik played leading role in regime change and country’s pivot to west but also brutally repressed dissent

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Meloni revives €13bn Sicilian bridge as part of defence planning [FREE TO READ] Italian government aims to add decades-old project to increased Nato spending pledge

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Dmitry Medvedev’s long march from liberal hope to nuclear threat [FREE TO READ] Former Russian president goads Donald Trump with bellicose social media posts

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