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vrijdag 26 juni 2026

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The Friday Five


Editor-in-chief picks her favourite stories of the week.

[Interview] Russia has captured world chess, Carlsen’s coach says

Tea with Putin in Sochi, Peskov in New York, oligarch sponsors in Dubai, and other ways the Russian elite captured the global chess circuit – an insider’s guide by Peter Heine Nielsen, the coach of chess champion Magnus Carlsen.

Trump went too far this time, and got a Meloni tongue-lashing

Voters see Donald Trump’s personal abuse, even if the politicians pretend not to. Ties to the Trump administration are now politically toxic in Europe. Meloni, whose roots are in the Italian far-right, is fending off a challenge from the even more rightwing National Future party, led by a fire-breathing, pro-Kremlin retired general, Roberto Vanacci.

Israel has bombed and bulldozed €150m of EU-funded buildings in Gaza and West Bank – but never paid back a cent

Israel has damaged at least €150m of European taxpayer-funded structures in Gaza and the West Bank, but not paid back one euro, according to an EUobserver investigation compiling data from the EU and third-party aid groups, amid Brussels’ wall of silence.

19 EU leaders back foreign deportation centres for rejected asylum seekers

Return hubs rallied mass support in the EU Parliament, and are now being pushed ahead by most European leaders at the council summit – though not everyone is onboard

German appetite for Russian cod puts EU fish sanctions at risk

Ursula von der Leyen announced a ban on Russian cod earlier this month, as part of the next sanctions package – but at least four EU states are holding out against it.

 

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