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Accord de libre-échange UE-Inde: l’Allemagne mise sur une alternative indienne à la Chine

12 janvier 2026 à 13:37
Au premier jour de sa visite en Inde, le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz a appelé à conclure rapidement un accord de libre-échange entre l’Inde et l’Union européenne, estimant ce partenariat essentiel dans un contexte de profonds bouleversements géopolitiques. Berlin et New Delhi entendent d'ailleurs renforcer leur coopération dans l'industrie de la défense.

Accord de libre-échange UE-Inde: l’Allemagne mise sur une alternative indienne à la Chine

12 janvier 2026 à 13:37
Au premier jour de sa visite en Inde, le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz a appelé à conclure rapidement un accord de libre-échange entre l’Inde et l’Union européenne, estimant ce partenariat essentiel dans un contexte de profonds bouleversements géopolitiques. Berlin et New Delhi entendent d'ailleurs renforcer leur coopération dans l'industrie de la défense.

Trump is ready to grab Greenland. The EU should move first – and offer it membership | Robert Habeck and Andreas Raspotnik

12 janvier 2026 à 11:00

The US president’s threats to the territory show Europe needs a new strategy for its far north: one based on cooperation, not domination

The new year is still young, yet Donald Trump’s fixation on expanding his homeland signals a troubling geopolitical shift. From Venezuela to Greenland, the world is unmistakably moving away from the relative stability of the post-cold war era – not least also because of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

This erosion of long-established norms has severe implications for Europe, a continent whose core political philosophy is built on limiting (national) power. A rules-based order, international law and negotiated solutions lie at the core of Europe’s self-image. Yet in today’s world, Europe can uphold this vision only if it evolves into a more muscular geopolitical actor itself – and nowhere is this more evident than in the Arctic.

Robert Habeck served as German vice-chancellor and minister for economy and climate action from 2021 to 2025, and is now working at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Andreas Raspotnik is the director of the High North Center for Business and Governance at Nord University and a senior researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway

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US will have Greenland ‘one way or the other’, says Trump as EU warns it would mark the end of Nato – Europe live

12 janvier 2026 à 14:05

US president repeats his desire for the territory; EU defence commissioner says attempt to take Greenland by force would mark end of Nato

Meanwhile, EU defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius warned that it would be the end of Nato if the US took Greenland by force, as he stressed that EU members would also be under obligation to come to Denmark’s assistance, Reuters reported.

“I agree with the Danish prime minister that it will be the end of Nato, but also among people it will be also very, very negative,” commissioner Kubilius told Reuters at a security conference in Sweden.

“Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything.”

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Adieu les fake news sur WhatsApp ? L’UE va serrer la vis sur les « chaines » publiques de l’app

12 janvier 2026 à 10:25

L'application WhatsApp sur smartphone

WhatsApp n’en a pas fini avec ses soucis réglementaires. L’application ne va pas tarder à être désignée comme une « très grande plateforme » par l’UE, ce qui vient avec de nouvelles obligations concernant la modération de contenus.
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‘Act of family vengeance’: French defamation case highlights perils of writing autofiction

Complaint against Cécile Desprairies over Nazi collusion novel alleges that ‘resentment permeates the entire work’

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz is famously credited with the line: “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” In contemporary European literature, a book these days is often the beginning of a familial feud. With thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of family strife undergoing a sustained boom across the continent, it can increasingly lead to family reunions in courtrooms.

Such was the case with the French historian Cécile Desprairies, who on Wednesday was sued for defamation by her brother and a cousin over the depiction of her late mother and her great-uncle in her 2024 novel La Propagandiste.

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Ukraine war briefing: Nightfall – Britain races to develop ballistic missile for Kyiv

12 janvier 2026 à 01:55

UK government starts contest to have deep-strike prototypes delivered within 12 months; heat-starved Kyiv under Russian attack again. What we know on day 1,419

Britain is to develop a new deep-strike ballistic missile for Ukraine, the government has announced. Under the project, named Nightfall, the British government said on Sunday that it had launched a competition to rapidly develop ground-launched ballistic missiles that could carry a 200kg (440lb) warhead to a range of more than 500km (310 miles).

“Nightfall missiles will be capable of being launched from a range of vehicles,” said the UK defence ministry (MoD), “firing multiple missiles in quick succession and withdrawing within minutes – allowing Ukrainian forces to hit key military targets before Russian forces can respond.”

Three industry teams would each get £9m to design, develop and deliver their first three Nightfall missiles within 12 months for test firings, said the MoD. Ukraine’s current ballistic missiles include Atacms, for which it relies on the US, and the self-developed Sapsan.

Russia was again attacking Kyiv early on Monday, the Ukrainian military said, sparking a fire in at least one district. Ukrainian air defences were at work against incoming targets, said Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration.

The renewed attack came as more than 1,000 apartment buildings in the Ukrainian capital remained without heating because of a Russian bombardment on Friday. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said that despite repairs the situation was “still extremely difficult”, particularly in border regions.

At the Vatican, Pope Leo offered prayers for the people of Ukraine, saying the “particularly serious” strikes on energy infrastructure were “hitting the civilian population hard, just as the cold weather is getting worse … I pray for those who are suffering and renew my appeal for an end to violence and for efforts to achieve peace to be intensified.”

Ukraine’s forces hit three drilling platforms operated by Russian oil company Lukoil in the waters of the Caspian Sea, the Ukrainian military general staff announced on Sunday. The strikes on Russian energy sites aim to deprive Moscow of oil export revenue used to fund the war. Moscow meanwhile said a Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh.

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Champions Cup : la rechute de Toulouse, le sans-faute de l’UBB, les cancres Clermont et Bayonne éliminés

12 janvier 2026 à 00:16
Lors de la troisième journée de Coupe d’Europe, Bordeaux-Bègles a frappé fort contre Northampton tandis que Toulouse s’est à nouveau incliné à l’extérieur. Seuls l’ASM et l’Aviron sont éliminés avant la dernière journée.

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Antoine Dupont et les Toulousains ont chuté à Londres. 

Kepler network to link OroraTech sensors for Earth monitoring

11 janvier 2026 à 23:53

MILAN — OroraTech has entered a multi-year partnership with Kepler to supply thermal sensors for Kepler’s new optical communications constellation.  The first four SAFIRE Gen4 sensors under the agreement launched Jan. 11 aboard a Falcon 9, flying as part of the constellation’s initial deployment. “With Kepler, we are doing something completely new that will revolutionize […]

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