Last January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was eager to have an ally in the White House to go after foreign regulations “pushing” American tech firms “to censor more” content.

Good morning from Brussels – and welcome to the very first 2026 edition of Europe Today. Just 12 days into the year, the geopolitical landscape has already been upended by an increasingly brazen US president.

Donald Trump has been warned against any “unacceptable American meddling” in Marine Le Pen’s appeal. The US president is reportedly considering sanctioning the magistrates who handed the former National Rally leader a five-year election ban over the embezzlement of EU funds.

God only knows what the Trump administration will do” if the EU expands its aviation emissions scheme, an EU official says.

EADaily, January 11th, 2026. Some EU officials are afraid that US President Donald Trump may get Greenland as part of a deal on Ukraine, Politico writes.

It’s essentially the premise of Jurassic Park. The behemoth EU-Mercosur deal, which has a good claim to be the largest preferential trade agreement in history, was widely written off as extinct. But it has been reconstructed from its original DNA and is now close to being released into the wild.

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President Donald Trump is not the first U.S. government official interested in Greenland. The first major attempt to control the island was in 1868.