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- by FRANCE24Estonia's Narva has become a tense microcosm of the NATO-Russia standoff. Since 2022, Estonia has fortified the border with anti-tank obstacles and moved to sever ties with Moscow. In this 95% Russian-speaking town, the government has mandated Estonian in schools and recently banned Russian citizens from local voting. Amid Russian provocations like removing border buoys, […]
- by Douglas HERBERTShared economic and security interests still bind Europe and the United States, even as trust has eroded, insults have flown and rhetoric has hardened in the transatlantic relationship, Brando Benifei, the chair of the delegation for relations with the United States at the European Parliament, tells FRANCE 24 in Talking Europe.
- by FRANCE24Ukraine said on Thursday that Starlink internet terminals used by Russian forces on the battlefield have been deactivated, disrupting Moscow’s military operations in several areas. The move comes after discussions between Ukrainian officials and Elon Musk. Russia had relied on thousands of Starlink units for mobile, hard-to-disrupt communications, particularly for drone operations, and has few […]
- by Armen GEORGIANEurope has experienced numerous crises since Donald Trump returned to the White House: on trade and tariffs; on Ukraine; and perhaps the most surreal one – on Greenland. The latter was unprecedented: NATO's leading member, the US, openly expressing its territorial designs on another NATO member, Denmark. With each emergency, the same calls have been heard for Europe to wake up and […]
- by FRANCE 24The European Commission on Friday announced that preliminary conclusions of a two-year investigation found that TikTok was in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act due to its "addictive design". TikTok has said the probe's findings were "categorically false".