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Greenland Crisis  US Threats
Former Biden Advisor: Trump Will Take Greenland

Donald Trump will force Greenland to his side within a year. That's what former presidential advisor Charles Myers, who has been an advisor to Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, tells DI.

- The maximalist rhetoric was - we will invade the island or buy it. That won't happen. However, Denmark and Greenland will be forced into a tripartite agreement.

According to Myers, there are three demands. An agreement that the US will be allowed to expand militarily in Greenland, that Russian and Chinese shipping will be limited in Greenlandic territorial waters and that the US will be given exclusive access to the rare earth metals.

He believes that it is mainly the last thing that Denmark would refuse to accept.

Poland-Belarus relations
Award-winning Polish journalist released in prisoner exchange

Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut has been released after five years in a Belarusian prison, several media outlets report.

Poczobut was awarded the Sakharov Prize, the EU's highest award for human rights activists, last year. He was released in a US-brokered prisoner exchange involving eight countries – including Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia.

"Welcome home to Poland, my friend," writes Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on X. Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski calls it "a wonderful day" and a sign of Poland's "excellent" relationship with the US.

A total of ten prisoners were released. Among other things, Poland released the Russian archaeologist Aleksandr Butyagin, whom they planned to extradite to Ukraine, where he was accused of having carried out excavations on the occupied Crimean peninsula without Ukrainian permission.

Political situation in Romania
Romanian S joins forces with the far-right – sawed off in the EU

Romania's social democrats PSD are receiving harsh criticism from left-wing politicians in the EU parliament for having joined forces with the far-right AUR party, reports Politico.

PSD and AUR, the two largest parties in parliament, intend to join forces to bring down Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan's centrist coalition in a vote of no confidence.

According to critics, PSD is doing exactly what the center-left in the EU has long accused the center-right of doing: joining forces with forces they have sworn to exclude from power.

– They would cross a line they themselves set in Europe: to refuse political cooperation with extremists, says Vula Tsetsi, leader of the European Green Party (EGP).

According to Politico, the developments in Romania illustrate the gap between political red lines in Brussels and the reality in individual countries, where traditional parties are finding it increasingly difficult to govern without the far right.

Chernobyl disaster
40 years after the disaster – now the number of animals in Chernobyl is increasing

40 years after the major nuclear accident in Ukraine’s Chernobyl, it is still dangerous for people to live and inhabit there. But in the absence of people, the number of animals in the area has increased, reports AP.

The number of wolves, lynxes, moose and red deer has increased. In addition, several brown bears, which have not been around Chernobyl for over 100 years, have been seen there.

The nature around the accident area is also beginning to recover, the news agency writes. The fact that people are no longer there has been a great help, according to experts.

– Nature is recovering quite quickly and effectively, says naturalist Denys Vyshnevskyj.

The radioactivity around the nuclear power plant has had a limited impact on animals and nature. Some frogs have developed darker skin and birds are more often affected by eye problems.