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Swedish royals and PM visit site of campus shooting as police search for attacker’s motive – Europe live

Eleven people, including attacker, died in country’s worst mass shooting with two more in intensive care

We are waiting for the press conference to start and will bring you a live stream (in Swedish) and top lines as soon as it does.

Germany’s Social Democrats gained three percentage points in the latest YouGov poll this morning, but still remain in the third place just weeks before the general election on 23 February.

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© Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

Sweden shooting: 10 people dead after attack at education centre in Örebro, say police – latest updates

Perpetrator of shooting at Risbergska campus in Örebro believed to be among the dead, say police

Aftonbladet daily is reporting, quoting local authorities, that an air ambulance is on its way to the scene.

Separately, Dagens Nyheter daily is reporting a conversation with a manager of a pizza restaurant near the campus, who said 30 to 50 people fled to shooting to shelter there – shocked, but unharmed.

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© Photograph: Kicki Nilsson/EPA

EU ready to react to ‘unnecessary and stupid’ tariffs threatened by Trump, leaders say – Europe live

European leaders gather chiefly to discuss defence but US president’s threat of trade war dominates agenda

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has just been addressing the media on her arrival in Brussels.

She spoke about the need for Europe to “do more, together” in defence and look at how new initiatives can be funded.

We were listening carefully to those words and of course we are preparing also on our side. What is clear, there are no winners in trade wars.

If US starts a trade war, the one laughing on the side is China. We are very interlinked. We need America, and America needs us as well.

I think that tariffs are always bad. Tariffs are bad for trade, they are bad for the US, bad for those who seek tariffs imposed.

The answer to tariffs is to reply with same actions.

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© Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/Reuters

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