19:45⇢Vance Lectures Munich
⌨The newspapers report extensively on US Vice President J.D. Vance's confrontational speech in Munich, where he criticized Europe's democratic standards, prompting sharp rebuke from German Defense Minister Pistorius (NOS, NRC, RTL, Trouw, Volkskrant). Von der Leyen proposes excluding defense spending from EU budget constraints (FD), while Amsterdam municipality faces growing payment backlogs with 28,866 unpaid invoices (Parool).