Have you ever heard of a honey trap?

Remember the KGB? Moscow’s intelligence services use social media and honey traps to recruit saboteurs in #Europe.

https://united24media.com/world/from-sex-agents-to-conspiracy-communities-these-are-the-unexpected-recruitment-methods-of-russias-intelligence-services-20135

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From "Honey Traps" to Conspiracy Communities, These Are The Unexpected Recruitment Methods of Russia's Intelligence Services

Between 2023 and 2024, the number of sabotage attacks in Europe nearly tripled. The year before that, it quadrupled. Meanwhile, the image of a Russian spy in an expensive suit bears less and less resemblance to reality. Today, the recruiter might turn out to be a Telegram channel administrator, an attractive stranger on social media, or someone who shares your views on "secret conspiracies."

UNITED24 Media
As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man

Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.

Foreign Policy
Catholic cardinal risks Israel’s wrath in moral appeal for EU sanctions

Silence can also be violent, cynical, and spiteful, as with the EU failure to act against Israel, despite what the Vatican called its “destruction of entire cities … the enormous number of children killed.”

EUobserver

“Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/63035691

“Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu - tchncs

Lemmy

(by Abolish Frontex)

20 REASONS TO ABOLISH THE EUROPEAN BORDER GUARD FRONTEX

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1. Since 2014, over 29,442 people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, where Frontex operates covering the European sea borders.

2. Frontex communicates the position of migrant boats to Libyan militias who abduct people at sea and force them into torture camps.

3. Frontex has coordinated the deportation of 104,000+ people from Europe since 2006.

4. Frontex has coordinated deportation flights in which people have been tortured.

5. Frontex is complicit in the outsourcing of border control to countries on the African continent, for example through the Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community network which has 30+ African states as members.

6. Frontex has been recruiting an army of border guards who can own and use hand-guns, and aims to have 10,000 guards by 2027.

7. Frontex is complicit in illegal and life-threatening pushbacks of people from Greece to Turkey. Since 2020, more than 2000 such incidents have taken place.

8. Frontex has cooperated with national border guards in Hungary, Bulgaria, and Greece that pepper sprayed and beat people with night-sticks, and chased them through forests with dogs.

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Ukraine's embrace of contested nationalist symbols and Poland's politically driven backlash have escalated into a damaging dispute that risks weakening a crucial wartime alliance while serving Putin's interests. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/29/world/ukraine-poland-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #poland #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #upa #karolnawrocki #lawandjustice #europeanunion #volhyniamassacre #donaldtusk
Ukraine can’t afford a breakup with Poland over history

This is reckless statecraft at the service of domestic politics on both sides — only Poland isn’t at war.

The Japan Times

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CoESS calls for exclusion of Private Security Services from EU Inc. Regulation - Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe
The Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS) has published a new position paper raising concerns about the European Commission’s proposal for an EU Inc. Regulation. While the proposal aims to simplify cross-border company operations in the EU, CoESS warns that it could unintentionally weaken nat…

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Today in EU Inc · 28 Jun 2026

🇧🇪 BELGIUM: CoESS calls for exclusion of Private Security Services from EU Inc. Regulation - Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe

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Chronological feed of every detected EU Inc signal across the 27 EU member states. Latest first, primary sources throughout.

Ukraine has already come a long way to the EU. Much has been built on this foundation, and every such step brings us closer together, #Ukraine and the #EuropeanUnion, Ukrainians and all of Europe.

Behind every such success of the state stand our citizens, our warriors, and all our people who protect the security and the future of all of #Europe. And who, through all their actions every day, bring closer not merely accession, but our affirmation as an integral part of the common European home. And behind every such step also stand our like-minded people from other countries, true friends and allies, tested by time and struggle, who have proven that Ukraine and #Europe are one.

President of #Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Constitution Day.

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