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US troops could be stationed in Nato state Denmark in the future. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is currently negotiating a new defence cooperation agreement with Washington. Not all commentators have a good feeling about the move.

The people of Hungary elect a new parliament 3 April. The election campaign officially begins on 12 February, but the political parties and the public have been in campaign mode for some time now. The country's commentators take a dim view of this state of affairs.

Spain has been downgraded from the highest category of "full democracy" to the second category of "flawed democracy" in The Economist's Democracy Index reviewing 2021. With a score of 7.94 (compared to 8.12 points in 2020), the country now ranks 24th (22nd in 2020). Commentators blame the dispute over the independence of the judiciary for the drop in ranking but take different views on who is to blame.

EU lawmakers are pushing to include interoperability obligations for messaging services and social media platforms in the Digital Markets Act.

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Multiplying solar energy capacity tenfold, deploying around fifty offshore wind farms and building six EPR 2 nuclear reactors. These are all part of France's long-term energy plan President Emmanuel Macron detailed on Thursday (10 February)

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The European Commission is all about chips, Meta threatens to go and the Twitterverse quips, while Olaf’s popularity notably dips.