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The conflict over Koran burnings in Sweden has escalated. In protest at an announced burning, angry demonstrators stormed and set fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, with Iraq expelling the Swedish ambassador. In Stockholm, a demonstrator trampled on a copy of the Koran outside the Iraqi embassy. Protests have also taken place in other predominantly Muslim countries.

Viktor Orbán, Hungary's right-wing nationalist prime minister, has once again stoked tensions between his country and Romania with his traditional speech at the Bálványos Free Summer University in Transylvania. Addressing citizens of the Hungarian minority, he poked fun at Romania's political system and mocked the EU. His speech elicits annoyed comments from the press in both countries.

With EU enlargement back on the political agenda, the West has an opportunity to revitalise its policy toward the Western Balkans. To achieve this goal, the US must assume greater leadership by advocating for a staged and reversible accession process and increasing its efforts to reduce intra-regional tensions, write Nicholas Lokker and Kristen Taylor.

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Factory workers and labourers call for furlough as five people in Italy are believed to have died because of extreme heat, reports The Guardian, EURACTIV's media partner.

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Even if new mines were to be opened in the European Union today, experts in the French mining sector say it would be very difficult to achieve the EU objectives for extracting critical and strategic raw materials by 2030.

The OD Expert Group and policymakers discussed the challenges ahead for the rare disease community, expressing hopes and doubts about the revision of the regulatory framework. The Group presented its multi-stakeholders and consensus-based proposals for the Pharmaceutical revision and HTA.

Slowdown as the European institutions prepare to go into summer recess.

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's southern port of Odesa early on Sunday (23 July) killed one, injured 20 and severely damaged an Orthodox cathedral in the city centre, a UNESCO world heritage site, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Nations from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa agreed steps on Sunday (23 July) to try to slow unauthorised migration and to tackle some of the pressures driving people to leave their homes and attempt to reach Europe.

The possibility of a right-wing governing coalition between Partido Popular, Sunday's election's winner with 136 seats, and Vox with 33 seats, faded away as they fell short 7 seats of the 176 seats needed for an absolute majority.