The far-right Alternative for Germany won the final count with 43.8% of the vote in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election, more than doubling its 2021 result, while Chancellor Merz's CDU fell to 17.2%; the party is still three seats short of an outright majority, and every mainstream party maintains its 'firewall' refusing to govern with it. Merz said the result had 'changed not only Saxony-Anhalt, but Germany as a whole' and that he was 'profoundly shocked.' It is the closest a far-right party has come to power in a German state since the Second World War.
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Euronews · Monday, 7 September 2026
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced a 200 million euro, two-year package for Greenland covering connectivity, clean energy, fisheries and education, during a visit to the capital Nuuk. She said the EU stood with Greenland, which is under “enormous pressure,” without naming Donald Trump, who has repeatedly said the US should take control of the Danish territory. Greenland is a self-governing Danish territory, and Denmark is an EU member, but Greenland itself is outside the union.
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Euronews · Monday, 7 September 2026
German police found and defused 21 homemade explosive devices near high-voltage lines in Saxony, part of a sabotage campaign that has also targeted power infrastructure in Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia. A 48-year-old suspect, described as a climate activist, is wanted after sending letters to media and authorities claiming responsibility and citing opposition to fossil fuels. Suspected explosive materials were found at his home; three lignite-mining states have now been targeted.
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DPA · Monday, 7 September 2026
Madrid's Audiencia Nacional ordered a criminal investigation into the roughly 72,000-strong crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta over two days in July, which this paper has previously reported left dozens dead by drowning. The investigating judge cited the same police report on Moroccan security forces' 'total permissiveness' that Spain's national police chief has said does not blame Moroccan authorities for planning the surge, and wrote that it fit the pattern of 'hybrid warfare' aimed at Spain. The court will examine whether an organised structure lay behind the crossings and the deaths.
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Euronews · Monday, 7 September 2026
