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NYTIMES (Jim Tankersley and Mark Landler) - Europe Wants to Break Free From American and Chinese Technology. But How?

France and Germany want to quit relying on America and China for key technology like artificial intelligence, but they’re having to choose where to do it.

JUSTTHENEWS (Christina Park) - Europe at a crossroads between AI sovereignty and managing reliance on U.S. tech

President Macron signals progress on access to restricted U.S. AI models, but Europe remains caught in balancing act between urgent security needs and the long-term push for technological sovereignty

NYTIMES (Amelia Nierenberg and Sergey Ponomarev) - Iceland, Rattled by Trump’s Greenland Threats, Weighs Joining the E.U.

Iceland has stood apart from the rest of Europe. But President Trump’s threats to Greenland have provoked a reconsideration.

JUSTTHENEWS (Eric J. Lyman in Rome) - EU leaders increasingly fear over dependence on China, after years of worrying about US dominance

European officials fear repeating with China the same strategic mistake they made with cheap and accessible Russian energy.

NYTIMES (Jim Tankersley, Christopher F. Schuetze and Steven Erlanger) - Trump May Pull Troops From Germany. That Isn’t as Scary as It Once Was.

Germany has hugely increased its military spending, aiming to be less dependent on Washington. Its support for U.S. attacks on Iran may also give it leverage.

NYTIMES (Steven Erlanger) - Every Trump Threat to Abandon NATO Hollows It Out

Doubts that the United States would come to the aid of NATO allies increase each time, prompting Europeans to consider an alliance without Washington.

NYTIMES (Michael D. Shear) - Trump’s Brusque Threat to Europe: Go It Alone

Threatening to pull out of NATO, President Trump portrayed the alliance as a “paper tiger” and said Europe was on its own in trying to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

NYTIMES (Jeffrey Gettleman, Christopher F. Schuetze and Maya Tekeli) - Denmark Was Ready to Blow Up Airfields to Stop a U.S. Invasion of Greenland

The Danes brought blood supplies, explosives and live ammunition to Greenland as part of contingency plans in case President Trump acted on his threats to seize the island.

JUSTTHENEWS (Eric J. Lyman in Rome) - U.S. has increasingly come to dictate European policy more than the countries

New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen acknowledged Friday at the start of the Munich Security Conference that Europeans "clearly" have been rattled by Trump's talk of the U.S. taking control of Greenland

NYTIMES (Patricia Cohen and Adam Satariano) - Trump’s Disdain for Borders Is Triggering Alarms Over Financial and Tech Sovereignty

European leaders have been compelled to address the possibility of once-remote risks to the financial networks and technology that undergird their economies.