Valentina Pop

as.ft.com/r/fe2e8775-0... Albania’s flamingos meet the Trump family bulldozers

as.ft.com/r/6ae1a0c9-e... Putin ties himself to ruling party as war fatigue bites

as.ft.com/r/19c312b3-4... An astute observer of life behind the Iron Curtain, Drakulić made her name with work that joined political analysis to the intimate texture of daily existence. She wrote about ideology not as abstraction but as something felt in kitchens, wardrobes and courtrooms.

as.ft.com/r/d229c732-3... Italy open to Germany joining fighter jet project, says Leonardo chief

as.ft.com/r/0c191ea1-3... Russian missiles used in deadly strike were built this year with western parts, says Ukraine @christopherjm.ft.com

as.ft.com/r/d956aeee-7... Germany’s Friedrich Merz says he would not want his children to move to US

as.ft.com/r/2ace6bdb-2... EU ties €35bn fund release to Hungary’s break with Orbán era

as.ft.com/r/ef5f7b74-1... Nato chief riles Europe by backing Trump’s war in Iran @henryjfoy.ft.com

as.ft.com/r/1e8fdc2a-6... From Vienna’s rooftops, the Kremlin is listening in

Dystopian future is here @christopherjm.ft.com ig.ft.com/ukraine-kill...

as.ft.com/r/2cb61a10-f... US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe

as.ft.com/r/0ec4825e-a... Kyiv’s great freeze

as.ft.com/r/ba44ce43-3... Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe’s key satellites, officials believe

as.ft.com/r/4a16c2f2-5... Italian far-right activists push for ‘remigration’ law

as.ft.com/r/18827118-9... Bike lanes vs narcos: French mayors step up fight against drug gangs

as.ft.com/r/eb83af13-d... Russian oil income drops sharply as sanctions bite

The idea that hope is a kind of torment, that outright crisis is at least mentally clarifying, was most famously expressed by John Cleese and his 1986 road caper Clockwise: “It’s not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It’s the hope.” as.ft.com/r/1dceb5c4-7...

as.ft.com/r/d7abf46b-d... The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose @chassnews.bsky.social

as.ft.com/r/4c493b50-c... ‘It’s about trust’: Donald Trump’s fresh tariff threats push Europe to harden its stance

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