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The Friday Five Editor-in-chief picks her favourite stories of the week. Denmark’s ‘socialist’ leader is a race-baiting fake, not an EU model “People with an Islamic background … do not want an open, free European society,” Frederiksen told MPs, in reaction to a humanitarian crisis in Morocco. Putin takes aim at UK in anti-Nato game of fear “Putin Always Chickens Out”, so far, but his humiliations in Ukraine, as well as Chinese pressure, could push him to test Nato resolve like never before. Europe’s dangerous art of anti-Muslim doublespeak “Of course, this isn’t against all Muslims,” the EPP says reassuringly, only against those who practice “political Islam as an ideology.” And of course it is not intended to be a “discriminatory enterprise.'” Greek billionaire’s ships carried €2.35bn of Russian Arctic gas to Europe this year Russia’s ‘Yamal’ LNG facility is located at Sabetta, a purpose-built port in the Arctic Ocean, where ice thickness can reach two metres during winter months. Journalists need to report on who is causing the climate crisis, so that the EU public feels it can make a change Most media reporting on extreme weather doesn’t talk about the root causes or solutions. That contributes to people feeling powerless at a time when they need to mobilise and push their governments into taking action.   Copyright © 2026 EUobserver.com. All rights reserved.